Product Description

Capture NX is a radically enhanced and redesigned version of Nikon's digital image editing software. It delivers powerful and dedicated tools for photographers who want to work with their raw digital images (NEF file). Until now only possible with extensive mastery of layers and masking techniques -- but with the creative advantages of U Point technology, you'll be able to subtly blend with other adjustments to provide a natural looking result. Capture NX will revolutionize the way photographers work with digital images. Choice of positive or negative application of selective tools for Brush, Lasso and Marquee (four kinds), Gradient and Fill/Remove Reinforced Color Management optios include Perceptual, Saturation, Relative Colorimetric and Absolute Colorimetric Inherits advanced functions like Color Aberration Control, D-Lighting, Image Dust Off, Vignette Control and Fisheye-to-Rectilinear Image Transformation Compatible with non-Nikon cameras Part of the Nikon Total Imaging System comprising cameras, lenses, Speedlights, film scanners, accessories and related software Operating Systems - Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional; Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later System Requirements - CPU 1.0 GHz Pentium III/G4 or G5 processor or higher; 256MB RAM; 800 x 600 display; CD-ROM; Internet connection

Product Details

• Brand: Nikon
• Model: 25338
• Dimensions: 2.25 pounds

Features

• U-Point technology delivers powerful tools to help you fully realize the potential of your photographic imagination
• Makes NEF, JPEG and TIFF processing and editing elegant and easy for any photographer
• No complicated procedures; interface provides intuitive access to all of the tools you need
• Select and isolate an entire image or selected areas within the image for enhancement
• Adjust any of up to nine different sliders with Color Control Points: size, brightness, contrast and hue

Manufacturer Description
Supercharge your workflow with the next generation of high-quality image editing and processing. Utilizing U Point technology, Advanced Nikon Capture 4 delivers you powerful tools to help you fully realize the potential of your photographic imagination. The new Capture NX software releases not only the power of Nikon's Electronic Format (NEF) files; for the first time it makes JPEG and TIFF processing and editing elegant and easy enough for any photographer to implement. There are no complicated procedures - Nikon's new interface provides intuitive access to all of the tools you need. Make you photographic possibilities endless and realize the power of your imagination with Capture NX.

U Point technology

Capture NX image editing utilizes Nik Software's patented U Point technology. This new innovation in photo image processing and editing can be applied to Nikon's NEF files, as well as any camera's JPEG and TIFF files (some Capture NX functions apply to NEF files only). Capture NX features powerful tools that enhance images without complicated processes. Simply select a control point and adjust it's slider until you see the image as you like it. It's a highly visual, intuitive technique.

Color Control Points
Color Control Points let you directly select and isolate an entire image or an area within it for enhancement quickly. Within moments, you can choose and use any Color Control Point to modify any aspect of a selected area including: Size, Hue, Brightness, Saturation, Contrast, Red, Green, Blue, and Warmth.

Capture NX also "learns" to distinguish multiple control points. This feature eliminates complexity and saves you time when you are making a series of enhancements to your photograph. This lets you create your professional quality image in a matter of seconds!

Show Selection for accurate control
Use the "show selection" feature for each Color Control Point to see which area of the image is affected by the Color Control Point. This process reverses the image into a black and white view and clearly shows the image areas under adjustment.

Black, White, Neutral Control Points
Black, White and Neutral Control Points can be used to set the dynamic range and correct color casts in your images. Neutral Control Points can also be used to set color balance in an image. Each Control Point appears on the image and can be easily dragged from point to point, for precise movement and positioning to achieve the desired effect. The Control Points' sliders let you adjust their effect for the respective Control Point areas. Neutral Control Points can be used to set a targeted color to any color available within the color picker. This is useful for removing color casts and toning, even without a neutral object in the scene. Use of multiple Neutral Control Points helps reduce multiple color casts and enhance selected colors in images. The drag, point and slider control is very easy to use, yet very powerful and creative in its effect!

Red-eye reduction
Thanks to U Point technology, red-eye can be easily removed. Just place a Red-Eye Reduction Control Point on each of the offending eyes, and away it goes! With just a few slider adjustments, you can use a color Control Point to make blue (or any other eye color) eyes brighter, darker or more radiant. With a mere Ctrl-D click, you can duplicate your Color Control Point, so you can rest assured that the effect to each eye will be the same.

Photo Quality

Non-destructive image editing
Capture NX applies non-destructive image processing to NEF files, which means that you'll never compromise your original image. Every enhancement made is saved in an edit list with the original data and thumbnail. When changes are made to a JPEG or TIFF, however, it will affect the quality of the original image. To avoid compromising the quality of your images, Capture NX allows you to save the image under a different file name, or simply covert the file into Nikon's NEF format.

No modifications made to NEF files
Parameters set on any Nikon camera-produced NEF file (White Balance, Sharpening, Color Mode, Saturation, etc.) are applied to the image you transfer to Capture NX for editing. So your creative photographic decisions are preserved, and there's less to do later when you're finishing the photo on your computer.

Versatility

Enjoy the sheer power and convenience of intuitive photo editing.

Selective tools
With Capture NX, you get additional tools that allow you to apply over 25 enhancement styles.

Batching
By automatically applying one or more enhancements to a series of images, the new, improved batch processing of Capture NX is simple, and saves photographer's time.

Edit List
For easier, more intuitive photo editing, the Capture NX Edit List helps you to track, cancel or add new modifications.

Browser
The completely redesigned Capture NX Browser lets you sort, organize, compare, tag and improve images. Use it to select an image to enhance, rename a series of photographs, or quickly and easily apply a batch process to a group of images.

Customer Reviews

Excellent - very good system for price
This is a top-drawer software program, and certainly my choice for managing RAW files. It's easy to learn and instabtly has helped to "tune" some recent photos. Two thumbs up!

Very Useful
I would definitely recommend Capture NX and now Capture NX 2 which you can get a 30 day free trial from Nikon directly then purchase it here if you like it and judging by all the responses and my humble opinion I think you will. It is not going to do all the things that Photoshop can do but it performs awesome in the most common photo editing tasks, and the software is so intuitive it is actually fun to play with. It does eat up alot of computer resources so keep in mind if using a taxed or antiquated machine.

Nikon Capture NX
i'm disappointed that i just ordered and installed this software only to find out that capture nx2 will be released at the end of june. it is more compliant with intel based macs. of course wait to purchase if you're using a newer mac. i imagine i didn't do good research at the time, but am also wondering why amazon didn't have the information - other sites did.