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Introduction................................................. 1

RAW File Format Benefits..................................2 Camera Relationship ..........................................3

System Requirements & Installation .................................................. 5

System Requirements.........................................5 Installation .......................................................... 5

U PointTM Technology............................... 9

The Capture NX Interface ..................... 13

Getting Started......................................... 17

Opening Capture NX........................................17 Welcome Screen ............................................... 18 Browsing and Opening Images .......................19 Window Functionality Within Capture NX.....20 Exiting Capture NX...........................................20 File Format Differences....................................21 How to Print .....................................................23 Batch Processing...............................................23

The Browser............................................... 29

Folder Menu .....................................................31 Label Menu.......................................................32 Sort Menu .........................................................33 Batch Menu ......................................................34

File Directory ............................................. 37

Camera Settings ....................................... 39

IPTC ............................................................... 41

The Edit List ............................................... 43

Base Adjustments Step.....................................44

Camera Adjustments ........................................45 RAW Adjustments ............................................50 Lens Adjustments .............................................52 Light & Color Adjustments................................54 Detail Adjustments ...........................................57 Enhancement Steps..........................................59 Show/Hide Triangle...........................................60 Apply Step Checkbox .......................................60 Apply Enhancement Checkbox .........................60 Link Icon...........................................................60 Adjust & Filter Pull-Down Menu........................61 Opacity Mixer ...................................................61 Selection Notification Area ...............................64 Feather Control ................................................64 Versions Menu..................................................65 Automatically Generated Versions ....................65 Manually Generated Versions ...........................65 Batch Menu .....................................................66 New Step Button ..............................................66 Working with Enhancements ..........................66 Editing Steps and Enhancements ......................66 Deleting Steps and Enhancements ....................67 Copying and Pasting Steps and Enhancements ........................................................................ 67 Linking Enhancements......................................68 Swapping Enhancements..................................69

Toolbar F2 - View Tools.......................... 71

Direct Select Tool .............................................71 Hand Tool ........................................................71 Zoom Tool ........................................................72

Toolbar F3 - Edit ....................................... 75

Rotate ...............................................................75 Straighten .........................................................75

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Crop................................................................... 77

Toolbar F4 ? Black, White, and Neutral Control Points ........................... 81

Black Control Point ..........................................81 White Control Point .........................................82 Neutral Control Point.......................................82

Toolbar F5 ? U Point Technologybased Tools ................................................ 85

Color Control Point ..........................................85 Red-Eye Control Point......................................86

Toolbar F6 - Selection Tools.................. 89

Selection Brush .................................................89 Lasso & Marquee Tools ....................................92 Selection Gradient............................................93 Fill / Remove Tools............................................94

The Bird's Eye ............................................ 97

Photo Info .................................................. 99

Histogram .........................................................99 Watch Points...................................................101

The Image Window............................... 105

The Color Picker ..................................... 109

File Menu .................................................. 113

Open Image... ................................................113 Open With... ...................................................113 Open Folder in Browser .................................113 Open Recent ...................................................114 Save .................................................................114 Save As.... ........................................................115 Revert .............................................................. 116 Close ................................................................ 116 Print Setup... ..................................................116 Print... .............................................................117 Exit ..................................................................122

Edit Menu ................................................. 125

Undo ...............................................................125

Redo ................................................................125 Cut ................................................................... 125 Copy ................................................................125 Paste ................................................................ 126 Duplicate......................................................... 126 Delete.............................................................. 126 Select All .........................................................126 Flip................................................................... 127 Rotate .............................................................127 Size / Resolution .............................................127

Change the Output Size (DPI) .........................127 Change the File Size (Image Size)....................128 Fit Photo .........................................................128 Preferences .....................................................128 General ..........................................................129 Color Management ........................................130 Levels & Grid ..................................................131 Cache Settings ...............................................133

Adjust Menu............................................ 137

Light ................................................................137 Levels & Curves ..............................................137 Contrast / Brightness ......................................141 Auto Levels.....................................................142 D-Lighting ......................................................143

Color ...............................................................145 LCH ................................................................ 145 Color Balance .................................................150 Color Booster .................................................151 Saturation / Warmth.......................................151

Focus ...............................................................152 Gaussian Blur .................................................152 High Pass........................................................152 Unsharp Mask ................................................153

Correct ............................................................154 Color Aberration Control................................154 Distortion Control...........................................155

Opacity Mixer .................................................155 Noise Reduction .............................................156 Auto Red-Eye..................................................156

Color Profile....................................................157 Apply Profile...................................................157 Convert to Profile ...........................................158

Control Points Menu............................. 161

Color Control Points... ...................................161 Black Control Point ........................................163 White Control Point... ...................................165 Neutral Control Point... .................................167 Red-Eye Control Point... ................................171

Filter Menu............................................... 173

Photo Effects..................................................173 Add Grain/Noise.............................................177 Contrast: Color Range... ................................177 Colorize... .......................................................178 Black and White Conversion... ......................178

Batch Menu.............................................. 181

Run Batch Process... .......................................181 Copy Settings..................................................181 Paste Settings .................................................181 Save Settings... ...............................................182 Load Settings ..................................................183

Batch Process Alert Box ..................................183 Processing Queue.........................................184 File Naming dialog..........................................186 Batch Options .................................................187 Manage Settings Files .....................................187 Batch Process .................................................188 Watched Folder ..............................................190

View Menu............................................... 195

Show All Control Points .................................195 Show Selection ...............................................195 Show Grid .......................................................196 Show Lost Highlights .....................................196 Show Lost Shadows........................................197 Show Focus Area ............................................197 View at 100% .................................................198 Fit to Screen....................................................198 Zoom In...........................................................198

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Zoom Out........................................................198 Full Screen.......................................................198 Hide Palettes...................................................199 Compare .........................................................199

Compare in Browser.......................................199 Compare in Editor ..........................................200 Compare With Original...................................200

Window Menu ........................................ 203

Cascade ...........................................................203 Tile ................................................................... 203 Reset Palette Location ...................................204 Bird's Eye.........................................................204 Browser ...........................................................204 Camera Settings .............................................204 Color Picker.....................................................204 Edit List ...........................................................204 File Directory ..................................................204 IPTC Information ............................................204 Photo Info.......................................................204 Tool Bar...........................................................204

Help Menu................................................ 207

Contents.......................................................... 207 Technical Support...........................................207 Show Welcome Screen...................................207 About Capture NX..........................................208

Appendix: Short-cuts ........................... 211

Appendix: Supplied Color Profiles .. 214

Appendix: Advisories & Additional Notices ...... 217

Index .......................................................... 227

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Introduction

Introduction

Capture NXTM is a powerful editing and photographic processing application designed specifically for digital photographers. Its simple, straight-forward user interface makes image enhancement easy, and exclusive features based on U PointTM photo editing technology provide a fully non-destructive workflow, which takes the guess work out of editing.

Capture NX's patented U Point technology gives the user a number of unique tools, the most remarkable being the Control Point, which is used to adjust tone and color in an image. Control Points allow you to work directly on the image without the need for selections or layers and to apply your enhancements globally or selectively, giving you the power to increasingly refine your enhancements in order to create a natural-looking effect. Control Points let you apply and undo enhancements easily and quickly without compromising image integrity.

When you are ready to save and archive your images, Capture NX enables you to save your image in the NEF file format, which saves your image file without degrading your image.

operates together with the next, affecting the image progressively as more and more Control Points are applied. Select a Control Point to adjust color or to control the White, Black, and Neutral points. Because the enhancements you make are maintained separately from the original image data and without regard for the original file format, Capture NX enables you to make and change image enhancements repeatedly without degrading the quality of the image. Capture NX protects the original data as well as your enhancements when you save your image as a NEF file. With the NEF file format, you can always open the image and the enhancements, and close the image at any time without ever degrading the original image data.

Control Points are a unique editing concept that gives the user a completely different kind of control over color and tone enhancement in an image. A Control Point is placed directly on the image and its value is defined by the user. Each Control Point

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RAW File Format Benefits

Capture NX contains full support for Nikon RAW NEF images and can be used with any JPEG and TIFF (RGB or LAB based) files.

With JPEG and TIFF files, you can begin enhancing the files immediately by selecting one of the enhancements from the Menus.

Introduction

Shooting RAW has a number of distinct advantages over shooting and saving processed files. The RAW format records important archival information about the conditions under which the image was captured. This information can be used by Capture NX to make unique adjustments to enhance the image. The following are some of the camera settings and RAW adjustments that can be applied within Capture NX:

? Color Mode (Page 45)

? White Balance (Page 46)

? Tone Compensation (Page 48)

? Saturation (Page 49)

? Sharpening (Page 49)

? Exposure Compensation (Capture NX) (Page 50)

? Hue Adjustment (Page 50)

? Color Moir? Reduction (Page 51)

? Dust Off (page 51)

? Auto Color Aberration (page 52)

? Vignette Control (page 52)

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