Indeed, I find Nikon’s Picture Control styles very useful for quickly getting a look close to what you are after. They need to be good because event, sports and wedding photographers do not have the time to process every RAW file they shoot. Use the Picture Control Stylesįact: Canon and Nikon’s JPEG engines are good enough that some photographers only use them. I’ll happily push this to 100% in images where I know has negligible risk – identifying them takes a little bit of experience though. So I’ll leave it at 50% unless you are confident it will not cause degradation. However I have seen some examples where pushing this over 50% starts graying-out legitimate magentas and reds in an image. You can pull it up to 100%, where it works shockingly well in a side-by-side comparison with DXO Optics Pro. Enable Axial Colour Aberration CorrectionĮnable this and leave it at 50%.
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Past versions of On1 Photo Suite over-sharpens the fit-to-window image, while Alien Skin Exposure renders an even lower-resolution preview image. Magnify to 100% and you will see that it renders as much detail as other RAW converters. NX-D generates a lower resolution fit-to-window preview image, so some users mistake it as being “less sharp”. Following this simple rule improves your experience by 1,000%. Change values in discrete increments or typing in the new values with a keyboard. THIS WILL RESULT IN SUPER-SLOW PERFORMANCE. See those sliders in NX-D? NEVER DRAG THEM TO SEE HOW THEY AFFECT THE IMAGE. Image thumbnails may end up being displayed with wrong colours, but the image you are editing is displayed correctly, and it will export to ProPhotoRGB. If you want the exported TIFF to be in ProPhotoRGB, remember to set this in NX-D’s preferences. I have no idea if it will also work within that colour space, but decided not to take the risk. NX-D will default to exporting in the colour space your image is set to in-camera. So here are some tips that could help get that RAW conversion part done. However as I have mentioned earlier, NX-D is not user-friendly and insufficient in many aspects. I use NX-D to produce a globally exposure-adjusted, colour-corrected, noise-corrected, high quality 16-bit TIFF to feed into other post-processing applications that are better for detailed adjustments, such as Lightroom. Personally I find it easier to perform my edits on a well-exposed image with a neutral colour palette. Of course, I should emphasize that realistic colours does not automatically mean it looks good to everyone! It really boils down to a matter of preference. It is especially good at colour reproduction, where none of the competition could quite get the kind of accurate true-to-life colours as NX-D could. Against all these paid options, NX-D performs surprisingly well. I have spent nearly two years experimenting with the various RAW conversion tools – ACR, Capture One Pro, Photo Ninja, DXO OP, etc. For those initial steps of detail extraction, colour interpretation, global exposure adjustment, and noise reduction – it is a great tool. Updated on 5 October 2016 to include more details about the Picture Controls and adjust some grammar.Ĭapture NX-D is a great RAW converter for Nikon NEFs, no matter how you feel about its in-sufficiency for everything else. Also included amended recommendations for noise reduction. Updated 25 November 2016 to include reader observations and suggestions. Updated 2 December 2016 for revised recommendations.
Updated 22 June 2017 for information about astro noise reduction. Clarified recommendations for colour profiles.
Updated 2 August 2017 for recommendation about colour noise reduction. Updated 29 April 2018 regarding recommendation for colour moire reduction.
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