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from: Nikon
List Price: $109.95Amazon.com's Price: $105.95 You Save: $4.00 ( 4%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Nikon
EAN: 0018208253869
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Nikon
Manufacturer: Nikon
Model: NX2 Upgrade
Publisher: Nikon
Studio: Nikon
Features:- Photo-editing software upgrade for quick and easy image editing
- Color control points let you quickly change the colors of select images
- Automatic retouch tool for removing blemishes, dust, and other distractions
- Redesigned interface with customized workspaces and new image browser
- Requires valid serial number from Capture NX v1.x
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
There are lots of photo opportunities that wait beyond the behind-the-camera experience you have with any of the Nikon D-series DSLR cameras. Nikon Capture-NX software is like having a professional darkroom and editing lab of your own. It's easy to use yet uncompromising in quality. Capture NX 2 features award-winning U Point technology for precision selection and application of enhancements without complicated selections or layer masks. Designed to closely match the way photographers work with their images, Capture NX 2 is easy to learn and creates the highest quality results. Now you can selectively edit photographs without the need to manually outline or mask the area for editing. Simply place a Selection Control Point anywhere on the photograph then choose from almost any adjustment such as D-Lighting, Unsharp Mask or Noise Reduction, while limiting the ?reach? of that adjustment to just the selected area. Capture NX 2 adds an automatic retouch tool to its image editing toolbox allowing users to seamlessly remove blemishes, dust and other distracting elements from photographs while maintaining the integrity of the image. With just a simple slider adjustment you can easily open up shadows or recover blown-out highlights. Highlight recovery is most effective for RAW (NEF) files however it will work with JPEG and TIFF files as well. Color Control Points (improved operation) Black/White/Neutral Control Points (improved layout) Color management control with Soft Proofing Color Aberration Control, D-Lighting (High Speed/High Quality), Image Dust Off, Vignette Control and Fisheye-to-Rectilinear Image Transformation Noise Reduction - global or selective adjustments Distortion Control - reduces pincushion and barrel distortion effects Color Booster Color Balance Contrast/Brightness Saturation/Warmth Photo Enhance (for toning, sepia, black and white) Levels/Curves Editor, LCH Editor, Auto Levels
Amazon.com:
Nikon's Capture NX 2 software is a full-featured, nondestructive photo-editing program that gives photographers all the tools they need to quickly and easily edit their photographs. Also available in a full version, the upgrade software--which requires a valid serial number from v1.x--offers such editing features as color control points, selection control points, an auto-retouch brush, and shadow/highlight adjustment.
Enhancing the hue, brightness, and saturation of an image is as simple as placing a color control point on your image, then adjusting the length of the sliders. For example, color control points are a remarkably convenient way to change the color of flowers to look better against green surrounding foliage. As an alternative, editors can take a dull gray sky and add blue to change the mood of a captured scene. The selection control points, meanwhile, let you selectively edit photographs without manually outlining or masking the area for editing. Simply place a selection control point anywhere on the photograph, and then choose from almost any adjustment, including D-Lighting, Unsharp Mask, or Noise Reduction, while limiting the 'reach' of that adjustment to just the selected area.
Capture NX 2 also adds an automatic retouch tool to its image editing toolbox, allowing users to seamlessly remove blemishes, dust, and other distracting elements from photographs while maintaining the integrity of the image. And thanks to the shadow/highlight adjustment, you can easily open up shadows or recover blown-out highlights. Highlight recovery is most effective for RAW (NEF) files; however, it will work with JPEG and TIFF files as well.
The software's redesigned v2 interface includes such features as customized workspaces, an improved toolbar function and layout, improved edit list functionality, a redesigned image browser with a favorites folder, and improved image resolution adjustments. The software's holdover features from v1.x range include black/white/neutral control points, color management control, color aberration control, distortion control, a color booster, contrast/brightness adjustment, a saturation/warmth adjustment, black-and-white conversion, straighten and crop tools, and much more.
Finally, Capture NX 2 features award-winning U Point technology for precision selection and application of enhancements without complicated selections or layer masks. Designed to closely match the way photographers work with their images, Capture NX2 is easy to learn and creates the highest-quality results. Note that the software fully integrates with all Nikon software, including Camera Control Pro 2, Image Authentication Software, Transfer, and ViewNX.
Capture NX 2 System Requirements
Windows
- Preinstalled version of 32-bit Windows Vista Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Enterprise/Ultimate (Service Pack 1) editions or Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 2) editions
- Pentium 4 processor or better
- 768 MB RAM minimum (1 GB or more recommended)
- 200 MB free hard disk space for installation
- 1,024 x 768 or higher monitor resolution (1,280 x 1,024 recommended) with 16-bit color (32-bit color recommended)
- CD-ROM drive; Internet connection; approved memory cards for importing/exporting custom picture controls
Macintosh
- OS Macintosh OS X v10.4.11 or 10.5.2
- PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Xeon, or better processor
- 768 MB RAM minimum (1 GB or more recommended)
- 200 MB free hard disk space for installation
- 1,024 x 768 or higher monitor resolution (1,280 x 1,024 recommended) with 64,000 colors (16.7 million colors recommended)
- CD-ROM drive; Internet connection; approved memory cards for importing/exporting custom picture controls
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Excellent product that saves time
I shoot Nikon Digital SLR cameras in RAW and Fuji point-and-shoot cameras which create JPEG files. This product works well with both types of files and it has saved a significant amount of time when it comes to enhancing photos. I began using Nikon software with my purchase of Nikon Capture. I also use PhotoShop CS2. However, I found that Nikon Capture saved significant time concerning the creation of masks and layers. I believe I have reduced the use of PhotoShop by about 90% since purchasing ... Read More
Rating: - An essential tool for Nikon digital photographers
I have been using Nikon Capture NX since its first release, and it just keeps getting better. Nikon Capture NX2 is a major upgrade from NX 1.X, and it is a worthy and significant improvement.
Basically, Nikon Capture NX2 is a full-featured digital photograph processing program that provides a "digital darkroom" for digital photographers who want to manipulate digital photographs. Its real strength is its ability to process NEF (Nikon Electronic Format) photographs, (also sometimes called ... Read More
Rating: - An Easy To Use Photo Fixum Software - To Be Exact - Great!
As a Nikon D40x & D80 user/hobbyist, I enjoy photography not as a professional but as full-time relaxing hobby to commune with nature and this land. I like to produce for my enjoyment photos that make me happy and help me to remember the day and moment of the shot and experience.
Taking pictures of events and providing others copies of the photos and watching them enjoying the photos and them reacting with wows, that's a great shot, how did you do that, my head swells, my chest expands. ... Read More
Rating: - Best color enhancement software ever
Okay, I haven't purchased NX2 just yet, but I will because if it's better than NX ver. 1 then it's the bomb. The the color control point method is just the best thing I have ever used after using PS CS2,3. I will continue to use PS CS3 for surgery and Gaussian blur, and layers and so forth, but until PS builds a tool that does not leave traces of color correction boundaries, then Nikon Capture X will be my main tool for color enhancement and correction. Theres nothing else that comes close and I doubt if ... Read More
Rating: - Watch out Photoshop
Here I am, a Photoshop user for 7 years and raving about Nikon Capture NX 2. How did this happen? It's Adobe's fault. They sent me looking elsewhere after Bridge CS3 totally crashed on my computer. Bridge is junk software, as one internationally, well recognized Photoshop guru called it in a public forum. He was right.
So, I started looking. I got Capture NX free when I bought a Nikon D300. I tested it, compared it, and liked it. I bought the NX 2 upgrade and I couldn't be happier. Life is much ... Read More
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