For more localized control, the Selection Brush lets you paint your selection, after which you have all of the same adjustment options. Here, I've selected a single poppy and changed the color to yellow.
Nik Color Efex Pro 3 For Capture Nx2
For output, Capture NX 2 has some powerful options available. There is full support for color management and you can work in a soft proofing mode if you wish that allows you to see exactly how your image will look on paper. This is something that can't be done in some other programs like Adobe's Photoshop Elements or Lightroom.
Interesting review. I must admit as an NX user my biggest blocker to moving from NX to Lightroom is that when I installed the trial and used the two side by side, the color's seemed way off in Lightroom at initial import of my NEF files which made me very nervous. Granted I don't (yet) have a calibrated environment but the difference wasn't subtle.. it was very marked with the windows open side by side. Lightroom's UI and file management blows NX 2 away for sure and the lack of SilverFX Pro is another major blow against NX.
Hi Michael,I understand your frustration with Photoshop. I owned it for about 10 years before I ever did more than choose auto levels, auto contrast, and auto color. Seriously, I'm a programmer and hold patents for computer technology, but Photoshop is one of the worst user interfaces on the planet for beginners. This is why I wrote this article to help people like you so you don't suffer like I did. In addition, what makes you successful with Capture NX2 is primarly what Nik Software has done with their U-Point technology, so when you combine this with Lightroom or Photoshop you have the power of those superior products with the tools to make some amazing images.Try out the demo versions of the other Nik Software products with Lightroom. You can do a ton and never fire up Photoshop, but you'll get much more amazing results. Capture NX2 is great for what it is, but it's kinda like comparing Microsoft Works to Microsoft Office - it "works", but just barely.
Ron ... I am going in circles. I am a Nikon shooter (D300)I have used Lightroom since its inception and consider myself an advance, if not expert user. I find the adjustment brush useful but unwieldy ) I also used Wacom pen and tablet). I am very comfortable in LR and have no desire to leave it. I also use Photoshop (CS3) and am probably an intermediate level user there. I use it about 10%-15% of the time - mainly when I need layers, masks, channels .... Recently I have seen the work of some other photogs who are using nik software - primarily Color EFex I am very impressed with the filters and think the color point technology is something I want... Meanwhile several people have been telling me that I NEED Capture NX2... SO, I have been doing my homework (that's how I found your blog !). I am ready to buy, but I am not sure what I want and need. I am leaning toward buying the complete collection for Lightroom. At a cost of less that Color Efex for PS, I can have the whole collection for Lightroom. This will not give me the photoshop plug in but that collection costs $300 MORE - eek ! So I guess my questions are !Do I need Capture ? Do I need the ultimate collection. Money is not the greatest consideration but I would rather not pay hundreds of dollars for something I don't need. What do you think ???
Like most, I got caught up in Adobe's marketing net and herd mentality, so I purchased Elements11 and LR4. No doubt, both offer good value for the money. A few months after my purchase, someone suggested that I check out a trial version of CNX2 and closely compare preprocessed raw images in NX and LR side by side.I was amazed at the differences in the images at 100% and 200% crop. NX rendered images were appreciably more accurate with no color or tonal bleeding or coagulation vs. LR's attempts. When I postprocess, I want to know that I'm working with the most accurate rendition of what my camera's sensor captured. Granted, you can only see that by way of pixel peeping, but for me, that solidified my preference for CNX2.
After years of fiddling with various open source, adobe and other software...I now exclusively use Capture NX2 to convert my raw files... It gives me instant control over light falloff, chromatic alberation, d-lighting feature, whitebalance (love the channel multipliers!), exposure tweaking.... etc etc. And gives great colors by default. I would waste enormous amounts of time trying to make the images look good in adobe camera raw or lightroom.The trick is to use another program like acdsee to sort your photos and simply drag and drop files into capture nx to edit. In fact i'd erase all the features except the right panel because it's the only thing i really need. The software is somewhat buggy, but the real problem are all the stupid interface mistakes.Lightroom is great if you shoot events and need to edit photos in batches with control. But for my nature photography capture nx rulez!
I am new to PhotoLab 2.3.2 and NiK Collection 2 as a trial user. I am very familiar with NIK collection as I have used it for years as part of Nikon Capture NX2 (Color efex Pro 3 as a supplemental add on package.). That software allowed for support of a second display.
So glad to hear back from you both...only I opened up a photo and nik color efex...clicked on the control point and on the Ctrl D...and although it did drag the Control Point and move the changes...the original changes at the original control point disappeared! BTW...I am using it with CS2 if that makes any difference.It looks like a great feature so I would really like to get it to work!MargieAdding on to post...just a thought, could it be that I am using the trial version that it is not allowing me to do this?Originally posted ages ago. (permalink) the_picturelady edited this topic ages ago.
Ho realizzato questo scatto in Nicaragua, più precisamente a Ometepe l'isola lacustre più grande del mondo. Nella fattispecie era mia intenzione enfatizzare i colori dell'alba, ho quindi leggermente sottoesposto in fase di ripresa e successivamente, in postproduzione con Capture NX2 e Color Efex Pro 3 applicato un filtro digradante arancio. La sottoesposizione mi ha aiutato ad ottenere l'effetto voluto, ma ha anche contribuito ad oscurare le acque del lago che ho schiarito applicando il filtro Neutral Density, agendo sul gradiente della luminosità, ed applicandola solamente alla parte inferiore del fotogramma.
Il dipartimento di Matagalpa è il più montagnoso dell'intero Nicaragua noto in tutto il mondo per le sue coltivazioni di caffè per la maggior parte biologiche. Ed è proprio qui che ho scattato questa immagine. L'ho realizzata all'interno di un edificio utilizzato per l'essicazione del caffè. Il problema principale che ho dovuto affrontare è stato il colore delle sue pareti che riflettevano una luce dalla forte dominante verde. Ma non mi sono preoccupato più di tanto sapendo di poterla eliminare con estrema semplicità in Color Efex Pro 3. Per farlo ho utilizzato il filtro RemoveColor Cast, uno strumento tanto potente, quanto semplice da usare. Attraverso ill cursore del -colore- ho individuato la dominate, che ho successivamente provveduto a rimuovere agendo su quello dell'intensità. Ho quindi aumentato notevolmente il contrasto dell'immagine con Pro Contrast, applicato al maschera di contrasto con Capture NX2 e utilizzato lo strumento - Taglierina - per centrare l'immagine.
The aims of this study are to experimentally characterize the passive elastic behaviour of the rabbit abdominal wall and to develop a mechanical constitutive law which accurately reproduces the obtained experimental results. For this purpose, tissue samples from New Zealand White rabbits 215050 (g) were mechanically tested in vitro. Mechanical tests, consisting of uniaxial loading on tissue samples oriented along the craneo-caudal and the perpendicular directions, respectively, revealed the anisotropic non-linear mechanical behaviour of the abdominal tissues. Experiments were performed considering the composite muscle (including external oblique-EO, internal oblique-IO and transverse abdominis-TA muscle layers), as well as separated muscle layers (i.e., external oblique, and the bilayer formed by internal oblique and transverse abdominis). Both the EO muscle layer and the IO-TA bilayer demonstrated a stiffer behaviour along the transversal direction to muscle fibres than along the longitudinal one. The fibre arrangement was measured by means of a histological study which confirmed that collagen fibres are mainly responsible for the passive mechanical strength and stiffness. Furthermore, the degree of anisotropy of the abdominal composite muscle turned out to be less pronounced than those obtained while studying the EO and IO-TA separately. Moreover, a phenomenological constitutive law was used to capture the measured experimental curves. A Levenberg-Marquardt optimization algorithm was used to fit the model constants to reproduce the experimental curves. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 2ff7e9595c
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