On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 18, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> NX2 is both a dedicated RAW converter for Nikon users and a >> non-destructive JPEG and TIFF editor. It's not something I'd recommend >> unless you primarily use Nikons, but if you do its quite capable of >> functioning as a primary editor after the conversion stage for any >> other files. And its selective editing capabilities are far beyond >> LR2's. > > ... >> ...I can't compare to LR2 as I don't have enough experience with the >> latter... > > > If you're not particularly familiar with LR2 as you stated, how can > you assert that? And if it can't do everything that Photoshop can do, > why would one have both? Unless you were dealing with Nikon RAW files > specifically, of course. I do occasionally need Photoshop for some > kinds of work that I haven't seen *any* other software do efficiently. > > But if you like NX2 and it works for you, your life is good. :-) > > G >
I've used LR2 enough to get a good idea of the how capable the selective editing controls were (A very nice upgrade over LR1, but not nearly as capable as NX2 or PS). I didn't compare the high ISO NR when I was doing so. While CaptureNX2 can't do many things PS can do, it can do some very interesting things with selective editing that PS can't do unless you buy one of the Nik plugins (which cost more than NX2 does). Nik's Control Point system is very, very Nifty and makes a number of selective edits far less painful than they would be with layer masks or lassos. I still have to use PS for some things, most notably the clone stamp. (I am in fact using CaptureNX, not NX2, but David would need NX2 as NX doesn't support the D700 which is why I'm discussing NX2 rather than NX). But I've found myself using NX for most of my general editing of film scans and such after prepping the files in PS. At some point soon I'll be upgrading to NX2, I've only held off due to Nikon's poor upgrade pricing (the upgrade is only very slightly cheaper than the full version). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
