(No Music) Part2 - Nikon Capture NX2 Review

A quick review on editing RAW photos using NX 2. Covers changing IPTC info using presets, making RAW adjustments, making local image enhancements, and batch processing RAW to JPG.

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Education

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• Photography

[benshiza]

Thanks for this - very informative

[harunwahab]

@benshiza tq, glad you liked it.

[jerrylwatson1]

Thanks so much. Excellent!

[Prophit7]

Ok so that explains such a big change. I had a client think I my exposure were Really bad. I always shot in Jepg with Fuji before worked out great. If they made a camera like D700 I would buy it oh well. I guess I have to buy NX2 but its so darn slow and I edit HD on my computer go figure. They really need to get a faster engine or something. Otherwise I like the program.

[harunwahab]

i read somewhere that only nx2 reads the settings in ur camera fully. u gotta remember all raw formats are proprietary (except dng) so other softwares may not fully extract raw data correctly.

[Prophit7]

One odd thing is when I open in NX2 my exposure is how I shot it. When I open the images in anything else they are overexposed by a full stop!?! Even in PS or Bridge. Or in any image for Mac???

Have any ideas about that? did Nikon do something to the coding so it would look bad except their own program?

[Prophit7]

Ok at least I know I am doing it right and there is no other way.

Thanks for your help!!!

[harunwahab]

i guess ps is unable to read those steps in .nef, so tiff is the way to go....

[Prophit7]

Good to know about the Not Wiping Part!

Ok saving in .nef saves the adjustment steps but when I open it up in photoshop its back to the original Raw Nef image that I shoot without any adjustments? The only way I found to work around this is saving in Tiff then opening in photoshop.

Is there something wrong I am doing?

Thanks for your help!

[harunwahab]

when you save the .nef, it should save all the adjustment steps you made too. the original is not changed, and can get back to it under "version". batching raw to jpg won't wipe the raws.