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Getting Bold Colors with Nikon Capture Nx posted on 6th of june, 2008

Nikon Capture Nx is a Powerful Raw Converter and Image manipulating software (It works also on JPGs and TIFFs from other brand's cameras...obiouvsly the only RAW files that it opens are the Nikon .NEF).

The price to pay is that it's a bit slow and "heavy" on my computer(I do not own a Graphic Workstation...) , but the results may be insanely good!

For Nikon users (I found My Capture Nx in bundle in the Nikon D300's box... ) I suggest to shoot Flat and Neutral Raw files, and to elaborate them in C. Nx using the control Points with the "TSL" mode (that is : "TINT-SATURATION-LIGHTNESS") for every color zone of the photo...

The result is a very bold yet NATURAL color, with very little clipping and/or posterization artifacts at Full Res... The noise, if you shoot a "Neutral" Raw file, ...

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Tags: capturenx colors nikon raw vivid

Comments (7)

	(for Cmarshall717 ) I have had a D70s : there's no Active D-Lightning in it. Capture Nx can manage TWO d-lightning : the normal and the active... the active can be turned off if previously abled in-camera... but if it doesn't come from the camera settings, you CANNOT turn it on on the raw file By Nx... so, better taking it switched to "on" in the camera! (if the results are bad, you can disable it in the raw :-)) (for littledesire) : I suggest you to shoot in raw... results can be far...FAR better than in-camera jpg... even if they are (the raw files...) slow, heavy, annoying to elaborate, sometimes very difficult to manage and very slow to render in JPG (or TIff..). The Jpgs from the D300 are often very good... but the BEST results come from a workflow starting from the raw files... bolder colors...less noise...better sharpness... and some white balance and/or exposure errors can be easily correct without damaging the image!! C. - posted by Azathoth973 on June 09, 2008
	Thank you ! It would be helpful when I start to shoot in RAW. Colours are really great! - posted by Littledesire on June 09, 2008
	for photosmillenium... I'm sorry but I don't understand ..what do you mean with the word "Scatae" ? :-)) My English is a mess... sorry :-) C. - posted by Azathoth973 on June 07, 2008

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