Unleashing the RAW Power of Capture NX2
Learn the new features of NX2 from a professional photographers perspective. Then, go beyond the features and learn to use NX2 as a powerful creative tool to aesthetically enhance your images. This course delivers a unique combination of content and implementation, allowing you to unleash the RAW power of NX2 as well as your creativity
Release Date: 2010-02-05
Lessons
Getting Started
<p>Opening up the program and taking a tour of the settings and preferences</p>
Duration: 4 mins 53 seconds
User Interface
<p>Taking a look at the basic User Interface and how it is laid out</p>
Duration: 5 mins 0 seconds
Metadata
<p>Locate all of the information about an image including what camera settings were used to shoot it</p>
Duration: 2 mins 35 seconds
Toolbar
<p>Using the crop and leveling tools as well as exploring the toolbar</p>
Duration: 3 mins 28 seconds
Black and White Point
<p>Steps in using NX2 to remove a color cast</p>
Duration: 5 mins 27 seconds
Color Control Points
<p>Choose the color point and access all of the control points for that color</p>
Duration: 3 mins 19 seconds
Auto Retouch Brush
<p>Using sliced in painting technology to retouch areas in an image</p>
Duration: 2 mins 32 seconds
Selection Control Point
<p>This new feature allows users to use any feature in the program as a control point</p>
Duration: 2 mins 27 seconds
Selection Tools
<p>Reviewing the traditional capture tools in Capture NX2</p>
Duration: 5 mins 5 seconds
The Edit List
<p>The center of the nondestructive workflow at the heart of how NX2 software works</p>
Duration: 13 mins 2 seconds
Printing
<p>How to print from Capture NX2, as well as how to do contacts and soft proofing</p>
Duration: 6 mins 23 seconds
Edit Adjust
<p>Exploring the Edit, Adjust, and Filter pull down menus</p>
Duration: 3 mins 54 seconds
Light Adjustments
<p>Experiment with the light adjustments under the Adjustment pull down menu</p>
Duration: 23 mins 26 seconds
Batch Processing
<p>How to batch process large quantities of images</p>
Duration: 5 mins 49 seconds
Standard Infrared
<p>Working with IR-converted images in Capture NX2</p>
Duration: 8 mins 58 seconds
Enhanced Infrared
<p>How to shoot for maximum detail and how to make the choices in NX2 to maximize the captured detail</p>
Duration: 11 mins 38 seconds
Deep Black Infrared
<p>Deep Black is the closest to film IR that you are going to get</p>
Duration: 2 mins 9 seconds
Clouds
<p>Working with a sunset photograph that includes a lot of clouds</p>
Duration: 6 mins 6 seconds
Flowers
<p>This lesson goes through an image processing workflow using an image of orchids</p>
Duration: 15 mins 7 seconds
Portrait
<p>Using the tools of Capture NX2 to touch up a portrait image</p>
Duration: 16 mins 17 seconds