Introduction - Nikon 25338 User Manual

Introduction

Capture NX™ is a powerful editing and photographic processing application
designed specifically for digital photographers. Its simple, straight-forward user
interface makes image enhancement easy, and exclusive features based on
U Point™ photo editing technology provide a fully non-destructive workflow,
which takes the guess work out of editing.
Capture NX's patented U Point technol-
ogy gives the user a number of unique
tools, the most remarkable being the
Control Point, which is used to adjust
tone and color in an image. Control
Points allow you to work directly on the
image without the need for selections
or layers and to apply your enhance-
ments globally or selectively, giving
you the power to increasingly refine
your enhancements in order to create
a natural-looking effect. Control Points
let you apply and undo enhancements
easily and quickly without compromis-
ing image integrity.
When you are ready to save and archive
your images, Capture NX enables you
to save your image in the NEF file
format, which saves your image file
without degrading your image.
Control Points are a unique editing
concept that gives the user a
completely different kind of control
over color and tone enhancement in
an image. A Control Point is placed
directly on the image and its value is
defined by the user. Each Control Point
operates together with the next, affect-
ing the image progressively as more and
more Control Points are applied. Select
a Control Point to adjust color or to
control the White, Black, and Neutral
points. Because the enhancements you
make are maintained separately from
the original image data and without
regard for the original file format,
Capture NX enables you to make and
change image enhancements repeat-
edly without degrading the quality of
the image. Capture NX protects the
original data as well as your enhance-
ments when you save your image as a
NEF file. With the NEF file format, you
can always open the image and the
enhancements, and close the image at
any time without ever degrading the
original image data.
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