Nikon Capture NX2

Comments about Nikon Capture NX2:

It does what it says on the box.
very easy to get on with.

Comments about Nikon Capture NX2:

Good basic stuff with some advanced applications.

Comments about Nikon Capture NX2:

I bought Capture NX2 after having it on a 60 day free trial. It is very easy to use and straight away I was making beautiful images from pretty average ones. The only negative is that it is primarily designed for use with Nikon NEF format files (it will not work with other RAW file formats unless you convert them to JPEG first). The U-Point technology it uses makes it so simple and quick to transform your images. There are a few very good books on how to get the best out of this software and I do recommend buying one. I bought Nikon Capture NX2 After the Shoot by Mike Hagen.
I would recommend this product to anyone wanting an affordable photo editing package. Brilliant.

Comments about Nikon Capture NX2:

I always shoot RAW. This programme allows me to get the best out of my images.Easy to learn and use, little experience required. Ought to be supplied with each Nikon purchased .

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Item bought in August 2012. The product from Wex is a Windows Vista product and out of date and will not open files from my D7000 in Windows 7. It's so old it will not upgrade online. After a call to Nikon I deleted the Wex copy and loaded the latest trial version of the software from the Nikon website and used the key from the Wex software. Great software[...]

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Nikon's Capture NX2 isn't one of the market leaders in photo editing software, but I just don't think enough people know about it yet. It provides a handy and easy-to-use suite of tools that quickly deliver impressive results. Thanks to its simplicity, you can't really get lost in it (like I used to do with Photoshop), but it's still powerful enough to deliver the same professional results that you are looking for.Control points, using the U Point technology, allow you to retouch and enhance various image attributes (such as the sky) without affecting anything else. That's without masking - you can do it in seconds. I have found this to be really great for editing the brightness and contrast in the sky, and then following up with D-lighting adjustments to brighten and boost colours in the shadows.The white control point has made editing snow scenes a pure joy. It is so simple! And if you want to get stuck in and edit levels and curves, you can do that too.Selective edits are really simple and, as you may have gathered, I find them actually quite fun. I never found the same kind of enjoyment using more complicated software like Photoshop.The straightening tool is a simple matter of clicking on two points along a line to straighten it vertically or horizontally. It just takes the work out of it completely, and I now find myself trawling through thousands of images looking for things to straighten.I am currently using on a laptop with Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM, but look forward to getting this onto my desktop back home (overseas) and using a much larger monitor.Very powerful if working on NEF and RAW files, and just as good with JPEG and TIF files too. I am primarily using it with JPEGs, and find that editing and resizing is non-destructive, so you can edit away without worrying.Batch processing can be a bit messy, and you have to get your settings right, but honestly I don't find it any more difficult that any of the other software I have used in the past.I love this software. You can download a free 60 day trial version from Nikon, and you'll very quickly see what I'm talking about. Try it and you will definitely want to buy it. Wex Photographic had the best price I could find in the UK [...]

Comments about Nikon Capture NX2:

If you've got a Nikon DSLR, then buy it. You won't regret it

Comments about Nikon Capture NX2:

For Nikon users just buy it. For the photographer it is easier to use and better than Photo Shop at a fraction of the price.
Suggest buying the Mike Hagen book and reading it before down loading free trial of the software.Now my only use for Photoshop is adding text and applying the lens correction filter.

Comments about Nikon Capture NX2:

As one who is new to digitial, although I've been a semi-professional aviation and motor sport photograher for 40 years, Nikon Capture is a much easier product to use than Adobe Elements which I tried first. As a long term film man( mainly Kodachrome slides ), I still try to get near perfection in camera, and therefore don't use some of the more 'arty' aspects of Capture. I bought it to convert RAW files and to make minor adjustments to exposure etc. That said, I find its cropping and sharpening tools very useful too. The user manual is no where near as bad as some reviewers seem to think, although I did buy a copy of ' After the Shoot' by Mike Hagen which explains everything even better. I refer to both in fact. My computer is quite slow, but I still find Capture works well enough for me although if you have a heavy workflow you will need a fast computer.

Comments about Nikon Capture NX2:

I have tried most of the raw converters out there and can say that NX2 still beats the others in the way it handles NEFs

The workflow top to bottom is logical and well ordered and NX2 recognises DSLRs picture controls as well. What is also useful is the lens distortion controls and the CA removal as well. There is a multitude of adjustments available and more than enough to suit most photographers. Photoshop is now retired!

The jewel in the crown is the control point software that allows simple and fast local and global changes. It takes seconds to fix a sky, lighten a face or sharpen eyes. it is simplicity.

My comparisons to LR, PSE and Bibble put NX2 ahead in the way it displays NEFS. Images look sharper and have in my opinion nicer more subtle colours. The whole program is likely to be all you actually need if you do not require advanced trickery from PS.

On the downside is the slightly quirky interface and general look of NX2, plus it definately needs plenty of RAM and a fast processor. Batch processing is also slow.

If you can tolerate the cons then NX2 is likely to produce your best conversions yet.