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Hmmmmmm....... like most people out there I'm not always the first to read a manual from cover to cover (even more unlikely to read online help or a PDF manual!).... I might have discovered this earlier if I had....

One of the big complaints of NC is the clunky tool pallettes and how they over-lap each other and how some things would be more usefull in one pallette rather than the other etc and I agreed with that until this morning.

I discovered that you can just drag and drop the tools anywhere changing their order in the palettes and even dragging from one pallette to another or putting them on their own! I now have all the tools I use regularly in one pallette and that is it! No more over-lapping just a nice clean pallette in the top corner with the tools in order of workflow!

Now some of you out there may already have discovered this but I have never seen it mentioned in the forum....

Though I'd share this as the annoying toolbars was one of the initial dissapointments of NC....

....and for my next trick......lets speed this baby up ;)

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I use RawMagick for NEF processing now, but when I want to quickly look at a series of NEFs, AND see the important shooting data, I have not found better than NC. The multiimage window is very handy. NC, on my machine runs quite well and it is indispensible for just seeing what you got and applying RAPID variations to NEFS. I also like the fact that it doesnt seem to want to build huge cache files. It has many advantages over other ways of dealing with NEFS
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Yeah, NC has lots of great little features that you won't find out about unless you read the manual or spend a lot of time using it. Another nice one is that if you hit "tab" the tool pallettes disappear/reappear. Also, you can put one pallette on top of the other and use Alt +1 or Alt + 2 to switch between them.
paulhogan said:
Hmmmmmm....... like most people out there I'm not always the first
to read a manual from cover to cover (even more unlikely to read
online help or a PDF manual!).... I might have discovered this
earlier if I had....

One of the big complaints of NC is the clunky tool pallettes and
how they over-lap each other and how some things would be more
usefull in one pallette rather than the other etc and I agreed with
that until this morning.

I discovered that you can just drag and drop the tools anywhere
changing their order in the palettes and even dragging from one
pallette to another or putting them on their own! I now have all
the tools I use regularly in one pallette and that is it! No more
over-lapping just a nice clean pallette in the top corner with the
tools in order of workflow!

Now some of you out there may already have discovered this but I
have never seen it mentioned in the forum....

Though I'd share this as the annoying toolbars was one of the
initial dissapointments of NC....

....and for my next trick......lets speed this baby up ;)

--
remember kids..... it's about the image not the equipment!!
Click to expand...
 
so it is just me then ;)

The 'tab key' thing is very handy too..... looks like I'll be sitting down with a glass of wine and the manual this evening!!!

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remember kids..... it's about the image not the equipment!!
 
Nc has lots of little cool useful things.
Everyone always bashes NC.
I think they never took the time to use it.

I Like:

1. The Black and White converter does a fine job. I just a bit of contrast and sharpening and I have a great Black and White.

2. When checking a lens or focus to ability to see the focus area highlighted in red can be a real time saving tool.

3. I think the NEFs produced by NC are better quality than those of other converters.

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Wow I've been using Capture in processing my RAW files since March '04 and I didn't know that... I did read the manual, too!!! Thanks so much!

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Stacey
 
I hadn't read the manual. I just accepted that the toolbars were going to be that way forever. Next time I'm playing in NC, I'll be sure to change some things around. Nice heads up.

Regards,
Kriss

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That is a nice feature. Unfortunately, the Mac version seems to have the nasty habit of rearrranging the palletes in between program use. I wish NC would follow just about every other editing app that I use (Photoshop, Logic Express, Final Cut Express) and allow the user to create customized workspaces--e.g. different window arrangements for different uses. In Photoshop, I have workspaces created for different sized photos, with different locations, sizes and widths of palletes (e.g. those coming right off my D70, those cropped to 10x8, 6x4, and no palletes, just the toolbox). This way, I get the most screen real estate on my 21" LCD.
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yes my pallettes stay put thank heavens!!! you can reset them using 'view~reset tool positions' but otherwise they stay firmly where they were left.

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remember kids..... it's about the image not the equipment!!
 
Here are a few more tips, while we're on the subject...

Sharpening profiles

You can save the USM settings in the USM panel. I use strong sharpening with a low threshold value for low ISO images, but for high ISO images I prefer to use a more moderate sharpening with a higher threshold value to avoid aggravating any noise in the image. So to speed things up I have saved these settings into seperate ".num" files, and because I use them frequently they appear on the drop-down menu in the USM panel. This means I can just pick one from there instead of having to move the sliders around every time. I think you can actually do this with all of the panels, but so far I've only been using it with USM.

Multi-image window -> Sort by name and type

I use the Multi-Image window a lot, but I find it annoying to see the NEF and JPEG for each image side-by-side so I sort by name and file type. This puts all the raw images at the start, and the JPEGs at the end.

Multi-image window -> Favourites

I got tired of having to navigate to the folder where I keep my images every time I want to open the Multi-image window, so I added the folder at the root of my collection (C:\Data\Photos in my case) to the favourites in the Multi-image window. So when I do File-> Multi-Image window and it starts at "My Documents" I just click ok. Then I click the "Photos" entry in the favourites and then I click on the Folder icon to change folders. When the folder selection dialog comes up I'm already at "C:\Data\Photos".

Shortcut for Save As

The "Save As" dialog does something similar so I created a shortcut to "C:\Data\Photos" in "My Documents". When the Save-As dialog comes up I just double-click on the shortcut and it switches to that location and I can continue from there.
 
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