Complete Guide to the Nikon D200- P23:As with all my books, a full draft was reviewed by volunteers to weed out unclear language and misstatements. This book is better because of them. | Gray Point if you want to click in the image on a neutral area and have color casts removed. Apply exposure compensation. Select Show Tool Palette 2 if necessary from the View menu. Click the Apply button for Advanced Raw . This opens a tool area that allows you to change a number of camera settings Exposure Compensation Sharpening Tone Compensation Color Mode Saturation and Hue Adjustment see note at end of section . Drag the slider or enter a value directly to the right of the slider. Note that you re not actually changing the exposure though it will look like it. What you re doing is adjusting the linearity curve by which data is taken from the raw file and converted to pixels. If you increase exposure you may see noise become worse as the low values are shifted into visible range. If you decrease exposure you may see posterization158 of highlight data as Capture tries to deal with fitting too few captured values into a larger portion of the exposure. Work with dozens of other tools. Color Balance Noise Reduction Size Resolution and Vignette Control are amongst the other tools that allow you to manipulate the NEF image directly. The entire list is actually quite impressive though Nikon has managed to strew these tools willy nilly across palettes. Don t worry we re going to go through each tool individually so that was just a broad sweep through what you can do. Note Nikon Capture is not a full-featured image editing program. It has a nice set of tools that allow you to make most of the changes to how the raw sensor data is processed into an image but it is not a substitute for a full-featured product such as Adobe Photoshop CS2. Personally I use Nikon Capture only for its unique tools camera control interpolation of NEF images and post-image manipulation 158Posterization gaps in data in a tone ramp. Shows as gaps in histogram. Thom Hogan s Complete Cuide to the Nikon D200 Page 661 of exposure and white balance on NEF images and use Photoshop CS2 for
