I would agree with this, with the exception that Nikon Capture is possibly not the best, as yet, RAW conversion utility. Ten years ago photoshop was the only professional way to process pictures but that's not so anymore. Printing utilities like Qimage are often far superior for some workflows, and RAW Shooter Esentials is showing real promise as a converter.
Reality is that digital capture is now so good that photographers require far less of the colour correction capabilities that come with Photoshop and which were necessary to correct the problems of non drum scanned negs and slides.
I don't know of any program available now with the RGB/CMYK capabilites of photoshop but as printers are gradually becoming more aware of profiling RGB images, CMYK conversion will become less of a concern for photographers and moved to the print shop where it belongs.
Regards, John
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I got Nik filters from the Nikon site with about a 40% discount having followed a rather torturous path to the Nik Filter site. These plug straight into Photoshop and are very useful. I would be very loath to buy them for Nikon Capture as the PS route is by far the better one in my opinion. I would be interested to hear how you do perspective control in NC4, together with so many other things PS is so good for!
Gerry
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I just did a quick google search and found four or five programs that will do perspective control and that work outside of Photoshop. There are a lot of browsers, such a BreezeBrowser, that do an amazing number of things these days, sharpening etc, and all of these things, not too many years ago, could only be done with photoshop.
Photoshop is still a good program but photographers, I would guess, use only about 10% of what it's capable of doing. As the cost of it gets higher, because it tries to be everything to everybody, photographers will turn to more specific software that caters to them, and that software has over the last 18 months or so become available at reasonable costs.
Also, bundling full colour correction tools, USM, CMYK conversion, etc with a program like Pagemaker or Quark would make sense to a lot of photographers.
Regards, John
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
funny, even though capture is slow on my dp2.0G5, I still find it's presentation of my pictures more accurate than in photoshop.
I have been working on a wedding I shot last weekend, and when I make changes to the NEFs in capture, then use CSs file browser, none of my corrections show up and it is a royal pain to get a workflow going., It only took me 7 months to figure out
I can open a folder in Capture vs opening pics one by one in Nikon View and clicking edit, LOL.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
that article certainly gives us an idea of Nikon's Corporate philosophy toward Digital imaging, and it's one that firmly has it's head up it's...er, in the sand!
For better or for worse Adobe Photoshop is the dominate force in digital imaging and companies that decide to play nice with Adobe will benefit. But more importantly its all the little guys, the smaller developers who help further the cause. I'm a Mac user so its important to me that the makers of iView, Bibble, among others, have a way to tweak their product for the NEF format.
Nikon should take the branch that codes such stinky software such as Capture and put them to work on making a SDK for the NEF format. I mean how many copies of Capture do they really expect to sell, wouldn't the wide support and adoption of the NEF format sell more hardware?
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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