Nikon 25338 User Manual

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1 Chapter 1 Introduction1 Chapter 1 IntroductionCapture NX’s patented U Point technol-ogy gives the user a number of uniquetools, the most remarkable being theControl Point, which is used to adjusttone and color in an image. ControlPoints allow you to work directly on theimage without the need for selectionsor layers and to apply your enhance-ments globally or selectively, givingyou the power to increasingly refineyour enhancements in order to createa natural-looking effect. Control Pointslet you apply and undo enhancementseasily and quickly without compromis-ing image integrity.When you are ready to save and archiveyour images, Capture NX enables youto save your image in the NEF fileformat, which saves your image filewithout degrading your image.Control Points are a unique editingconcept that gives the user acompletely different kind of controlover color and tone enhancement inan image. A Control Point is placeddirectly on the image and its value isdefined by the user. Each Control Pointoperates together with the next, affect-ing the image progressively as more andmore Control Points are applied. Selecta Control Point to adjust color or tocontrol the White, Black, and Neutralpoints. Because the enhancements youmake are maintained separately fromthe original image data and withoutregard for the original file format,Capture NX enables you to make andchange image enhancements repeat-edly without degrading the quality ofthe image. Capture NX protects theoriginal data as well as your enhance-ments when you save your image as aNEF file. With the NEF file format, youcan always open the image and theenhancements, and close the image atany time without ever degrading theoriginal image data.IntroductionCapture NX™ is a powerful editing and photographic processing applicationdesigned specifically for digital photographers. Its simple, straight-forward userinterface makes image enhancement easy, and exclusive features based onU Point™ photo editing technology provide a fully non-destructive workflow,which takes the guess work out of editing.