Real World Nikon Capture NX 2

Chapter Two. Workflow, the Browser, and Color Management

Capture NX allows you to make very complex, sophisticated edits to your images, and when most people think of “image editing” it’s those amazing effects that first spring to mind. But in the film days, “editing” your images meant something else. Before computers and Photoshop and Capture NX, “editing” referred to the process of sifting through all of the images you’d shot to edit out the ones that weren’t worth processing.

With digital shooting, this old-school editing process becomes more important because, as you’ve probably discovered, it’s so cheap to shoot digitally that you tend to shoot a lot more pictures when using a digital camera. What’s more, if you understand that it’s often ...