Nikon Capture NX wish list - add yours

[CLOSED ACCOUNT]

So my wish list is short. Change the whole operating structure and make it more intuitive.

If by Adobe you mean PhotoShop, then I have some difficulties understanding how you can criticize NX for not being intuitive.

PS is powerful, but it's about as intuitive as quantum physics.

I agree. NX2 is a very simple, straight-forward, bare-bones, easy to figure out program compared to CS5.

I use both every day.

KEV
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[jboy1953]

I would love it if NX2 would be able to convert images to DNG so that I could use the X-Rite Color Checker Passport to build camera profiles. Currently the only way to do this is by using Lightroom or Photoshop. I actually like working in CX2 and would prefer to build my profile there. Oh well...

 

[v_]

I'd love to see an integration of Color Checker cards as well.

But I believe you can make an icc profile of a shot of the card using the software provided with the card. Than in CNX2 you can set to open or import files using that icc profile. Could be much easier if the CNV2 could create the profile.
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[Robin Casady]

So my wish list is short. Change the whole operating structure and make it more intuitive.

If by Adobe you mean PhotoShop, then I have some difficulties understanding how you can criticize NX for not being intuitive.

PS is powerful, but it's about as intuitive as quantum physics.

I agree. NX2 is a very simple, straight-forward, bare-bones, easy to figure out program compared to CS5.

I use both every day.

How about comparing it to Lightroom 3? I tried Aperture 3, NX2, and Lightroom before deciding on which to use. Aperture and Lightroom were pretty easy to figure out. NX2 was more difficult to fathom. Also, the delay between making a setting and seeing the effect made it feel like trying to swim through cold molasses.

BTW, Photoshop is very intuitive, if you have been using it since 1994. ;-)
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[Phil_L]

Re-organizable adjustments once made.

It would be nice if you could drag and drop but.. you can re organize by copying and pasting, then deleting.

Clunky but it works!

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Phil_L

 

[MPA1]

Please let Nikon scrap Capture NX altogether and release the NEF code to Apple and Adobe.

 

[CLOSED ACCOUNT]

Please let Nikon scrap Capture NX altogether and release the NEF code to Apple and Adobe.

No thanks....then we'd loose the U-Point technology and 'selection' control functionality...which is worth the price of NX2 in itself.

KEV
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[MPA1]

No you wouldn't.

The same technology is found in all Nik software programs - Nik invented it and licencesed it to Nikon!

They could easily cover any lost functionality once Nikon give up producing very poor software to go with very good cameras.

It is the equivalent of Adobe producing DSLR's. Each company should stick to what it is good at.

I have yet to see camera manufacturer originated software that gets even close to the usability and intuitiveness of a program made by a specialist company.

 

[Patrick McMahon]

No you wouldn't.

The same technology is found in all Nik software programs - Nik invented it and licencesed it to Nikon!

The U-point is vastly different in the add ons of Nik and may require the conversion to a Tiff. Having listened to people always chime in about having access to U-point via Vivenza I can tell anyone unaware - it is apples and oranges.

Anyone making these claims has not even scratched the surface of using NX2 to it's fullest. I use LR3, but I am very proficient in NX2 and would still use it if it didn't start crashing on my high speed computer. Having switched to LR3 I feel I have gotten a better all around photo management/ raw converter... Something Photomechanic and NX2 did not give me.

Anyone who wants Silver Efex 2 for NX2... Ah, you already have it! just use it stand alone, you'll be converting to tiff anyway with LR (or having a huge PS file).

Now, if Adobe would license U-point the way NX2 has it... then we have something.

 

[RBudding]

That's not useful unless the NEFS that I've already edited in NX2 can still be processed in any new version of the software - whomever writes it.

 

[RBudding]

I agree. The non-destructive edits using U-Points is fantastic.

 

[CLOSED ACCOUNT]

No you wouldn't.

The same technology is found in all Nik software programs - Nik invented it and licencesed it to Nikon!

The U-point is vastly different in the add ons of Nik...it is apples and oranges.

Correct.

The NIK plugins (including Viveza 1 & 2) do not incllude the NX2 "selection" control U-Point functionality...only the NX1 colour control points. Lot's of people who think they are the same...obviously don't actually use NX2 to create layer-masks and apply "selective" adjustments.

Otherwise they wouldn't keep on making this assumptive error.

KEV
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[Allan Rube]

More preferences to save. I use auto levels, for example. It always comes up as automatic, and I always change it to advanced, set the contrast to 0, and then adjust color. This is only one example of a setting I use where I must adjust from the default on every image.
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[PHXAZCRAIG]

What happens when a new version of Windows or Mac comes out, and NX2 doesn't run on it? Or you want to go to Linux?

 

[MPA1]

However, that is clearly something Nik could implement easily elsewhere and does not in any way negate my view that Nikon should abandon the software market completely and licence the full NEF code to others who can use it in better software.

Also, if there ever was a difference between NX@ U-Point and Nik's own U-Point I am not sure that still exists - this is from Nik's blurb about Colour FX Pro:

"U Point-powered Control Points make it easy to selectively add, modify, and remove a filter’s effect. Award-winning U Point technology gives you ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections."

Certainly it seems confusing at best, so I have emailed Nik to ask if there is any significant difference.

 

[CLOSED ACCOUNT]

"U Point-powered Control Points make it easy to selectively add, modify, and remove a filter’s effect. Award-winning U Point technology gives you ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections."

Yes, but only NX2 has the actual "selection" control (+- tools)....none of the NIK plugins has it...they merely have "control points"...which allow one to make a limited set of selective adjustments...(such as contrast/lighting/saturation/etc)...but do not have the capability to add a "selection" layer adjustment (ie: sharpening, d/lighting, blur/focus, and masking/colourizing, etc) which obviously NIK chose to keep unique to NX2 only.

In short, the NIK plugins only have NX1 capability...and not the advanced features of U-Point selection control in NX2.

I use NX2 (and CS5) for layer-masking on a daily basis with my studio still-life and floral stacking projects. IF one doesn't actually use 'layer-masking' as a regular part of their workflow...then I would imagine that they are not aware of the functionality differences between the NIK plugins and NX2.

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[Nick_W]

Like many I tried and really wanted to use it.

I would be happy if the only thing that they sorted out was the performance/crashes.

For now it's Lightroom
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[harold1968]

I would like a complete redesign of the user interface.

1. I want a film strip along the bottom that I can pick pictures off to view

2. I want the the filters on the right not to have quick adjust or camera settings, but merely to have a filter for everything I choose to adjust (e.g. bad info on where to sharpen, is it in camera settings, quick settings or unsharp filter ?)

3. I want the view not to flick back when I re-edit previous filters. e.g if I apply B&W filter after contrast, when I go back to change contrast the picture goes colour again, until I re-click on the B&W filter at the bottom

4. I want a pop-up for camera settings (or constantyl displayed on status bar - better). I don't want to keep having to go into that unwieldy metadata tab which obstructs the picture view

5. I want it to properly use mutli-cpu. Its so slow compared to LR3

6. I want to be able to drag the picture around without having to click between the annoying arrow and hand all the time (e.g. keep shift key down, or use second bottom to drag around the picture)

just getting started ....

Please, let there be an alert box disabling alert boxes!!!!

There are image manipulation softwares where you can set for example JPG quality in the main options, same goes for pasting adjustments, just like setting color space.
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[MPA1]

This sounds a lot like Aperture......!

1. I want a film strip along the bottom that I can pick pictures off to view

2. I want the the filters on the right not to have quick adjust or camera settings, but merely to have a filter for everything I choose to adjust (e.g. bad info on where to sharpen, is it in camera settings, quick settings or unsharp filter ?)

3. I want the view not to flick back when I re-edit previous filters. e.g if I apply B&W filter after contrast, when I go back to change contrast the picture goes colour again, until I re-click on the B&W filter at the bottom

4. I want a pop-up for camera settings (or constantyl displayed on status bar - better). I don't want to keep having to go into that unwieldy metadata tab which obstructs the picture view

5. I want it to properly use mutli-cpu. Its so slow compared to LR3

6. I want to be able to drag the picture around without having to click between the annoying arrow and hand all the time (e.g. keep shift key down, or use second bottom to drag around the picture)

just getting started ....

Please, let there be an alert box disabling alert boxes!!!!

There are image manipulation softwares where you can set for example JPG quality in the main options, same goes for pasting adjustments, just like setting color space.
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Viktor
'Happy shooting!'

 

[harold1968]

Its also alot like LR3, but I just can't get the pictures looking as good on LR3 as NX2 (the sharpening and the colours) , so I am stuck with NX2 for Nikon ......

1. I want a film strip along the bottom that I can pick pictures off to view

2. I want the the filters on the right not to have quick adjust or camera settings, but merely to have a filter for everything I choose to adjust (e.g. bad info on where to sharpen, is it in camera settings, quick settings or unsharp filter ?)

3. I want the view not to flick back when I re-edit previous filters. e.g if I apply B&W filter after contrast, when I go back to change contrast the picture goes colour again, until I re-click on the B&W filter at the bottom

4. I want a pop-up for camera settings (or constantyl displayed on status bar - better). I don't want to keep having to go into that unwieldy metadata tab which obstructs the picture view

5. I want it to properly use mutli-cpu. Its so slow compared to LR3

6. I want to be able to drag the picture around without having to click between the annoying arrow and hand all the time (e.g. keep shift key down, or use second bottom to drag around the picture)

just getting started ....

Please, let there be an alert box disabling alert boxes!!!!

There are image manipulation softwares where you can set for example JPG quality in the main options, same goes for pasting adjustments, just like setting color space.
--
Viktor
'Happy shooting!'