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Re: Nik Software And Capture NX
Capture NX2 is very good if you only select no more than five images to process from each shoot, and you don\'t need to open its raw conversion as a smart object in Photoshop. Its downsides are plenty but its rendition of Nikon colors is superb and the best, though you can achieve much better coloring in Photoshop later if you want.
LR is great if you\'re a volume shooter but its fatal limitation is its rendition of skin tones if you care. C1Pro is the best in skin tone department but just like CNX2 you can\'t open its raw conversion as a smart object in Photoshop. Unlike LR\'s RGB readings are expressed in percentages in ProPhoto Color Space, ACR is much better and it gives actual RGB value readings if you need to correct color but it won\'t give you other fancy stuff that LR offers, and the best part is you can open its raw conversion as a smart object in Photoshop. By having multiple different raw conversion from the same RAW image, you can achieve much much more possibilities and much quicker than all other tools can offer. I use them all for my needs but it really depends on what tool is the best tool for a given image. However, if you only want to spend your money on just one tool, one general tool, I would say Photoshop and it comes with ACR. And nothing beats it.
Oct 09, 2012 at 12:19 PM
mshi Offline [X]
Re: Nik Software And Capture NX
Capture NX2 is very good if you only select no more than five images to process from each shoot, and you don\'t need to have smart object for your raw conversion in Photoshop. Its downsides are plenty but its rendition of Nikon colors is superb and the best, though you can achieve much better coloring in Photoshop later.
LR is great if you\'re a volume shooter but its fatal limitation is its rendition of skin tones if you care. C1Pro is the best in skin tone department but just like CNX2 you can\'t turn its raw conversion into a smart object in Photoshop. Unlike LR\'s RGB readings are expressed in percentages in ProPhoto Color Space, ACR is much better and it gives actual RGB value readings if you need to correct color but it won\'t give you other fancy stuff that LR offers. I use them all for my needs but it really depends on what tool is the best tool for a given image. However, if you only want to spend your money on just one tool, one general tool, I would say Photoshop and it comes with ACR. And nothing beats it.
Oct 09, 2012 at 12:16 PM
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