Posted by photonovice on April 20, 2007
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Paul said
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom vs. Nikon Capture NX
Which is better, which one to choose?
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George said
To Quote “However when you would like to open the enhanced NEF file in Photoshop or just have a look at it in Picasa you cannot do that because the NEF file was changed in a secret way that is known probably only by Nikon engineers. Surely you can export your NEF file to TIFF or JPEG and continue its editing in whatever software you wish, but this is not a perfect solution. I hate closed, proprietary file formats.”
Answer: In NX, when a file is loaded, try File > Open With > ???
You can open any NEF file in an application of your choice as a tif
Regards
George
1 point for Nikon NX
Argonaut said
“In Lightroom, apart from the red eye adjustment and spot or blemish removal there is no way to do selective adjustments. Adobe suggest using – guess what – Photoshop for pixel level adjustments.”
Quoi? IN the Develop module of LR, under “HSL/Color/Grayscale” there is a little bullseye that when clicked, allows you to click on any part of the image and drag the mouse to increase or decrease the hue, saturation or luminance (or all three at once) of all pixels similar to the one you’re dragging. Sounds just like Capture NX to me, and I have found it astonishingly useful.
photonovice said
Hi Argonaut,
Thanks for your comment. You’ve drawn my attention to an important and really useful feature. I amended the original post accordingly. However the Selection brush and Lasso & Marquee tool kind of adjustments are still missing in LR.
photonovice
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Geo said
You offer interesting and helpful observations about Lightroom and Capture NX and I completely agree with your position on proprietary image file formats. As a result, although I’ve heard Capture NX is an excellent tool, I would NEVER adopt a software application that encourages camera manufacturers to continue relying on these file formats. Also, (and I offer this as constructive feedback), there is no such word as “destructed” and loose writing without tight copy editing distracts from your message.
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