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Customer Reviews for Nikon Capture NX2 Photo Editing Software
Nikon Capture NX2 Photo Editing Software
Model: 25385
SKU: 9523919
UPC: 018208253852
This software provides you with powerful tools to quickly and easily edit your digital photographs. U Point technology allows for precise selection and application of enhancements for your images without having to use complicated selections or layer masks.
Average Customer Rating:
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Customer Reviews for Nikon Capture NX2 Photo Editing Software
Review 1 for Nikon Capture NX2 Photo Editing Software
Very good software
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Usefulness
5.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
What's great about it: Great editing capabilities
What's not so great: Slow-ish performance.
Capture NX2 is for-purchase editing software, used mostly for editing Nikon NEF files but also for other workflows as well.
First, to clear up some confusion - this software is *NOT* required to convert NEF files to other formats, unlike what another review has indicated (ViewNX can do that for free).
Some people may balk at the cost of this software, but it's rather powerful in comparison to some of the other packages that come free with some cameras.
Cons:
The interface it's the best-looking in the world and the performance can be slow at times -- This on an iMac i-7 (2010) with 12GB RAM.
The interface it's the best-looking in the world and the performance can be slow at times -- This on an iMac i-7 (2010) with 12GB RAM.
No real clone tool.
Noise reduction routine really needs updating (I use LR3).
Pros:
Outstanding usability for people that aren't really too familiar with Photoshop layer operations because it provides layer-like functionality.
Very interesting/powerful U-point technology for selecting areas of an image to edit.
Works with some plugins - I use NX2 with Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters and they're amazing (and I'm a Canon shooter, though I've also owned about 5 complete Nikon systems before).
I would suggest you download a free 30-day demo from Nikon to check out the software. While it's not as fast in operation as say Lightroom, it IS useful for some heavier editing that what most free converters do. I use this software in conjunction with LR3 and CS5.
If you edit a whole lot of images, Lightroom might be more up your tree (excellent software), but I still keep NX2 around because my Color Efex plugins work in it (and they are awesome).
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 2 for Nikon Capture NX2 Photo Editing Software
Good software
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: tpmcman
from Monroe, NY
on 01/14/2010
Value for Price
3.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Usefulness
4.0
Ease of Installation
5.0
What's great about it: Allows me to convert nikon propriatary NEF (raw) images to raw/jpeg/tiff
What's not so great: If you have a nikon camera that saves NEF files you have to get this to convert images to other formats
Works as expected. A little expensive for what it does.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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