The enhancement effect can easily be adjusted, allowing you to apply your chosen effect as you would with intuitive masking. There is no need for precision selection or masks - the Selection Control Point recognizes the areas you want to modify. This new function enables you to apply enhancements such as Unsharp Mask or D-Lighting to a specific area with just a click of the mouse. For example, Color Control Points are remarkably convenient for changing the color of flowers to better effect against green surrounding foliage or for changing the color of a blue sky without altering the colors of foliage in the same picture. Color Control PointĮnhancements for hue, brightness and saturation are as simple as placing a Color Control Point on your image, then adjusting the length of the sliders. With this range of impressive tools many shooters will find Capture NX 2 to be a great stand-alone photo editing solution, while others will discover that it's a remarkably effective addition to their existing photographic editing workflow and process. Further, it maximizes the picture display area while simplifying the editing process by allowing multiple edits to be viewed simultaneously. The Edit List has been reorganized to allow easier access to most settings. Four preset Workspaces such as "Browser" and "Edit" can be selected as well as a number of user-defined workspaces that optimize single or multiple monitors for the ideal screen layout. The Capture NX 2 interface has been updated by adding "Workspaces" to optimize the screen layout. Photographers can quickly and effectively achieve the results they are looking for without having to learn all new methods and skills. The newly developed Auto Retouch Brush allows you to simply apply a few mouse strokes to clear away spots, blemishes or other unwanted distractions that appear in a picture. What once was a complex and tedious task now takes just a fraction of the time. Whether applying an Unsharp Mask to just the eyes in a portrait, a Gaussian Blur to only the background of a photograph or D-Lighting to open up the shadows, the Selection Control Point makes it easy to do. This made it possible to choose any area of a photograph for editing without the need for complicated selections or masking techniques.Ĭapture NX 2 introduces the all-new Selection Control Point tool, which allows users to carry out nearly any image adjustment to a specific area with just a point-and-click to make the selection. This revolutionary new development was the basis of the Color Control Point tool which enabled photographers of all levels to easily adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, color and warmth on specific elements of a picture such as sky, skin, grass, etc.
The original Capture NX software introduced the world to direct on-image editing. An evolution of the original award-winning Capture NX software released in 2006, Capture NX 2 makes it even easier to make quick and powerful photographic edits so you can spend more time making photographs and less time editing them on the computer. TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the introduction of the exciting new Capture NX 2 photo editing software.