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U point tech is widely available within Google's sphere of influence. It's native in the latest Android, Snapseed, Google plus, Google photos and likely more.
That won't help those of use who like to work on raw and tiff files though. Another thought, some of the Google Nik plugins will work as stand alone editors. Do this either by right clicking the tiff make a duplicate if necessary and selecting open with or by opening the plugin and dragging and dropping the desired file onto it. If you don't want a repeat of this fiasco with other softwares, I think the only reasonable choice, to my dismay, are Abobe products. ACR is almost all I need, unless I need to add textures, or do a lot of cloning etc.
PS has millions I suspect of actions available to do most anything. Incredible help and tutorials at the free AdobeTV. And while it likely is overkill for many of you, I think its time to bite the bullet. GIMP might be okay too, but I don't like the interface. Murray McMaster : And its too bad, too, as Snapseed was a great editing tool, until Google took it off the market for desktops.
It has the feel of CNX2 for me. I use it on the iPhone a lot. Digital imaging processing is dying as a business opportunity. I've predicted for quite some time that eventually the "camera" industry will evolve to producing only phone cameras and higher end DSLRs.
Look at the camera stats on Flickr - phone-camera pix are looking to be almost a majority. I suspect that phone-camera jocks don't use desktop apps much for image processing, because the whole purpose of the phone-camera is not to produce quality images for competition or for sale, or for the art not that some don't use it for these purposes.
Phone-camera images are used for communication. Rapid communication. Desktop processing apps for phone images are a no go. In my mind, the whole market of desktop apps for image processing is suspect.
As much as I hate to admit it, Adobe has the edge here, if one considers long-term persistence of product and support. So slightly off topic but still related since one of the major losses of moving away from Capture NX will be missing u-point technology.
I was playing around in lightroom with CEP filters. In Capture NX I could apply the Dynamic Skin softener, then select a minus brush and quickly brush out eyes, hair, etc. With Lightroom, the photo seems to open up as a TIFF in a seperate window and the only selective feature appears to be a control point.
But if the hair color is similar to the skin color then the hair is still affected. There doesn't appear to be a quick way to brush out what the control point is spilling over to. Am I just missing something or was Capture NX just that much easier to use. But in lightroom to soften skin I use the adjustment brush.
Paint the face or whatever and lower the clarity, noise and sharpen. You don't need plugins for LR if you know how to use all the settings. Granted it can't do laying tricks like photoshop. I downloaded the nik pluggin as it has Viveza u-point pluggin and am still monkeying with it on LR. But most of those plugin I can already do with lightroom, plus I don't want to create another tiff unless I have too.
I uninstalled CNX-2 long time ago. While having all three in CNX was convenient, it was limiting. The raw converter lacked selective edits and advanced features found in other converters, it's strongest point was having control over Nikon camera features. A few years ago it may have had the edge on IQ but not any longer. So unique, in fact, that I formed a dependence on U-points and thus on Nikon software for that type of masking, as I'm sure many of you have.
I used CNX for several years, and a little over a year ago I saw the writing on the wall about its then questionable future. My raw processor of choice will depend on the work. With landscape images destined for large prints I often try more than one processor and choose the one that gives me the best results to pass to my editor. For less important images, where IQ isn't critical, convenience wins out.
I chose PS because it's widely supported, its community huge, its company sound, its future virtually guaranteed, and it can do anything other editors can do including CNX and then some. For me, luminosity masking actions really sped up the transition away from U-points, and I get better results. Instead, it uses its U-point mask internally with its own limited set of internal basic adjustments brightness, contrast, saturation, structure to produce a finished end result.
So that's why I've been using PS as an alternative editor. Good luck. Regards, Frank. Peter van Rens 9 years ago. Thanks got taking the time. Edited by iScan-Cumbria member 9 years ago. Pretty much perfection. There was room for enhancements and tuning however. The thing is, CNX keeps that door open.
CNX-D at least currently does not and neither do the alternatives. The woeful shortcoming on Nikon's part was 2-fold. Calamitous marketing, plus gross strategic error in not securing, in perpetuity, the rights to Nik patents.
A little better marketing and they would have realised that in-house CNX2 would have been a profit centre and not a loss centre. You're right. But some of this fore-thought can be hard to push in a company like Nikon. It's especially hard in a traditional Japanese company like Nikon. Believe me. I know. Given the former, it would have been a short step then, for Nikon to have purchased outright Nik.
The purchase of Nik could have led to both a Cannon and Adobe slayer. I wouldn't go so far as to say that. I don't think Canon comes into the picture here and I think Adobe is much too well established.
But I think recent developments do serve to point out the differences in people's thinking, understanding and acceptance of certain attributes in their workflow. Some really value the way processing and post-processing was melded together so that one could for the most part be free to break from linearity in their workflow.
But to others These advantages are lost because their workflow is different. And that's fine. Use whatever practices work for you. It all really is about the comfort factour of the environment. I'm sure that there are plenty of things in Lightroom, CaptureOne, DxO, etc that could potentially be of value to me but I have not realised due to the nature of my workflow.
The rub for me however is that transitioning to them means giving up the things that I do value in CNX. I don't think I've seen Lightzone mentioned here. It's free and open source, does a good job rendering color, can make multiple adjustment steps, does masking based on color or luminosity and works on raw, tiff or jpeg and there are excellent tutorials on YouTube.
It really looks like a good NX2 replacement to me. ColetteNathan 9 years ago. Murray McMaster : In the last several days I have downloaded several trial versions of various software. I liked none of them. My first impression comes from whether it's intuitive or not when I first play with it immediately after download. None of the tools I downloaded for trials were intuitive. I don't want to have anything to do with any of the ones I tried Capture one, Lightroom, etc.
They all suck for me. But Lightzone was easy to use right away. I don't know much about it, but I didn't have to spend hours figuring out simple moves that shouldn't force me to go to a user's guide. When I first try a software, I want to quickly figure out simple basic operations.
For more complex moves, then of course I will go to the user's guide. So Lightzone is the keeper for me now, and yes, it looks very much like a CNX2 replacement. Lightzone does look intereting. I will download it and have a proper go at it. They start off right - calling it Darkroom software Lightzone crashed on my Mac so it has been removed. There-again I am not a great fan of open source software as there are no guarantees it will hang around or be supported proactively.
Thunderbird comes to mind! Well, looks like we are all doomed!! Open source is not always bad though. But I would rather take that chance with it than pay premium for some other brand name software, and be ditched one more time. But who knows, maybe something else will unfold!! Lightzone does have nice edit features with steps that have opacity and blending mode control much like NX2.
The colour and region selection is good, but would be enhanced with the addition of a brush mask too. Looks good, but as suggests - how long will the project be active? Free or not, I don't want to have to abandon another set of edits because software is deep-sixing.
Bill-S : What do you mean by "abandoning another set of edits"? I am sorry, I am not proficient in the language of this stuff. I have only used CNX2 and know nothing else. And I know I am ignorant, but I learned about sidecar stuff here, on this forum. I didn't know what it is. My edits are minimum anyway, except for ADL, and local points of course.
But my edits are different every single time for every single picture. So that's why I don't know what a "set of edits is".
Could you clarify this for me, please. A lot of the stuff discussed in this and other threads is over my head and I really don't understand most of it; what I understand is that I want to get a decent image, something I have been able to do in CNX2 like most of you. So with no known history or direction of Lighzone, maybe you edit about images over the next year with it then they announce they are tired and no longer want to work the project.
It is very slow to convert its edits to a 16 bit tiff by the way. Bill-S : OK, thanks. So you mean in case you want to reuse an edited NEF file. I don't save edited NEF files. So I guess for me it would make no difference, is that correct? That's what I have been doing anyway in some cases. It's called destructive editing.
I am sorry if I ask these questions. The loss of CNX2 had me thinking!! So by selecting a different software I wouldn't have to worry about destructive editing since it appears I always practiced destructive editing. Please correct me if I am wrong. Sorry about my ignorance, here. The fall of CNX2 and the reading in this forum has started alerting me although I didn't understand everything said here! I'm surprised to see so many people who've been abandoned by their software maker out looking for software from sources that are the most likely to abandon them in the same way.
If you're in this for the long haul it seems kinda pointless. SEWinds Posted 9 years ago. Edited by SEWinds member 9 years ago. It's kind of off topic but yes a blur in logic exists going from film to digital. Keeping just the actual digital developed positive becomes destructive editing. Hoping the edit commands that produced that result stay relevant in the distant future becomes non-destructive edit keeping..
ColetteNathan Posted 9 years ago. Edited by ColetteNathan member 9 years ago. I just don't want to be forced to do so. I really resent it. Maybe something will come up that makes sense, who knows. I will use NX-D and I don't mind, but sometimes I do need the retouch brush you know dust spots and I don't want to pay premium for Adobe or Aperture or whatever else just for minor fixings.
I don't modify my images extensively anyway. Again, I speak for me and what works and doesn't for me. I wish there was a better solution out there. John Aldred is based in Scotland and photographs people in the wild and animals in the studio. You can find out more about John on his website and follow his adventures on YouTube. Dunja Djudjic is a writer and photographer from Novi Sad, Serbia.
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Nikon ViewNX 1. Alternatives to digiCamControl. You can target any area of the photo that you want to alter and then you have 26 different and precise tools to give you a very high degree of precision over changes.
Finally, there's also an 'Auto Retouch Brush', which is designed to get rid of blemishes that mark your photos. You can even remove certain objects by sampling the background and then brushing over them. Nikon Capture NX 2 is a highly professional, yet surprisingly easy-to-use tool, which makes a must-have for all Nikon camera owners. Compatibility with Mac OS X version Specifications have been modified so that when 25 Photos on Page, or a higher number of photos per page, is selected for Select Layout in the Print layout dialog, the Use Thumbnail Data Draft Use Only box is automatically checked.
This resolves an issue that prevented printing when 25 Photos on Page, or a higher number of photos per page, was selected for Select Layout. Capture NX 2 would quit unexpectedly when certain settings files were applied with the Apply Settings box checked in the Watched Folder panel of the Batch Process dialog.
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