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But Nikon NX Studio could be a good way for those individuals to start using a more advanced image editor without spending any money at all. People who should definitely not use Nikon NX Studio are those who have a mobile-first workflow. While there are certainly some important caveats to consider, as well as some messy bugs that will get ironed out over time, I certainly recommend you download it and give it a try. Hopefully, this Nikon NX Studio review gave you some information to help you understand a bit more about the program and whether it will work for you!

Are you interested in Nikon NX Studio? What do you like and dislike about the software? Share your views in the comments below! However, the program works just fine with JPEG images. Nikon NX Studio is designed for desktop-based workflows; there is no mobile version. You can take photos on a mobile phone, transfer them to your computer, and edit them in Nikon NX Studio, but that workflow adds many more steps and probably takes too much time for most people to consider.

Nikon NX Studio is free, but most of the others have free trial periods for new users. That way, you can make an informed choice and find the program that suits your needs. Most computers made in the past few years will work just fine with Nikon NX Studio. I personally found better results when I was working with an SSD instead of a spinning hard drive, but almost any modern desktop or laptop will run the program just fine. While Nikon NX Studio does have a built-in video editor, its capabilities are very limited.

It works for basic trimming and combining clips but not much else. Nikon NX Studio goes way beyond basic image editing, and it has some powerful tools that appeal to amateurs and professionals alike. Nikon NX Studio utilizes a separate program called Nikon Transfer 2 to import images from a memory card or other source. Photo storage on the left, editing tools on the right, and your image in the middle.

On slower computers, editing operations like changing the white balance can result in a tiny delay, during which time a checkerboard pattern is visible. I left Nikon NX Studio running overnight; the next morning, I found that my computer had slowed to a crawl. It had some kind of memory leak that was using every spare scrap of RAM I had available. Nikon NX Studio imports images to folders on your hard drive, not to a proprietary archive. To find your images, use the folders on the left-hand side.

The Filter bar lets you sort by many different criteria. List View is a very useful way of viewing and sorting your images. You can create custom sets of editing adjustments, then switch to your custom sets with a simple click.

The Color Control Point tool lets you click on any part of an image and use sliders to adjust colors on the spot. Nikon NX Studio has a very useful tool for making global color edits to an image. Click and drag up or down on the horizontal line to adjust the parameters of a color, and adjust the Width to control the range of colors affected by a given peak or valley.

The Export dialog in Nikon NX Studio has plenty of options, but its use is limited by the lack of export presets. The menu structure has been optimized for simplicity and utilizes the same terms found in Nikon camera menus.

Items are grouped logically for ease of use and palettes can be customized to create your own workspaces. Video editing has become simpler and easier with Movie Editor, which is accessible via an Edit Video icon.

Trim unwanted segments from your movie footage, add background music, splice together multiple clips into one video and create stunning slide shows that include both still images and videos. Brighten a blue sky, increase the saturation of just the strawberries in a bowl of fruit and more, without adding a color cast to neutral colors.

See an overlay of the focus points on any image shot with a Nikon camera. Turn on or off image info or the histogram. You can even rotate, label or rate images individually or as a group.

The choice is yours! For the first time, NX Studio allows you to select from two different formats for saving your final post-editing data. This option creates an accompanying adjustment file.

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You can update your preferences or unsubscribe any time. NX Studio Browse. And unlike in Capture NX-D, Windows conventions are now properly followed, so you can tab or shift-tab to switch back and forth between fields when typing in values directly, saving some wrist strain in having to reach for your mouse or touchpad repeatedly. One slight shortcoming is that while keyboard shortcuts are supported — for example, the F key toggles full-screen mode — there’s no list of shortcuts to be found in the otherwise-excellent user manual, and nor are they listed in the app’s settings.

We’ve sent a query over to Nikon about the keyboard shortcuts, and will update this article if and when we receive a response. There are relatively few downsides to the new UI. You can no longer undock and float panels to place them wherever you like on the screen, nor can you dock them in different locations to their defaults, other than for the film strip.

This defaults to a horizontal bar at the bottom of the screen, but can be switched to a vertical column at screen left instead. The navigation panel, folders and albums controls are all fixed at screen left, while the histogram, adjustments, EXIF information and keywording tools sit at the right of the screen. Both of these side panels can easily be resized, or hidden with a single click on their centrally-located arrow buttons. The film strip lacks a similar button to allow it to be hidden, but you can hide it by dragging downwards when resizing.

In most respects, NX Studio’s editing controls are identical to that app, although it does add the Color Booster control from ViewNX-i alongside NX-D’s saturation tool, giving you access to other method. But what else do you gain by switching from NX-D? If your images are geotagged, you can also add location-based tags semi-automatically, choosing from a list of app-selected location name suggestions, or even from place names suggested via Wikipedia.

Confusingly, though, this functionality is available only when in map view, even though the ‘Set from location data’ button remains visible — albeit grayed out — in other views.

I’d like to see Nikon correct that to be clickable regardless of your chosen view. Speaking of the map view, that’s another new addition, and it allows you to see geotagged images from your currently-selected folder or album on an interactive world map. You have a choice of map, satellite, hybrid or physical views provided by Google Maps. Each individual image shows up as a yellow pushpin on the map, with the currently selected image being shown in red.

If your camera recorded a compass bearing at capture time, that direction is also indicated on its pushpin when selected as shown in the screenshot above left, but not otherwise. If you have an NMEA or GPX track log recorded by the camera itself or a compatible device, these can be imported and shown as a red track line. And once imported, they can be used to approximately geotag selected images based on their capture time as compared to the times recorded in the track log.

Another new addition is support for movies, both in terms of playback and basic editing. The editing functionality allows you to quickly trim the start and end of clips, or splice multiple files together. You can also combine multiple movie clips and images to make a new file complete with titles, captions, and overlaid music. There are, however, only three transition effects, three still image durations with optional motion effect , and three brief music samples provided.

You can also add your own music in. WAV or. M4A formats, and process movie clips to remove autofocus noise. Unfortunately, you’ll need quite a beefy processor and GPU for smooth playback if you shoot in 4K, let alone editing. On my Dell XPS 15 laptop running Windows 10 version , I found p clips from the Nikon Z5, for example, played smoothly but those at 4K resolution stuttered badly. And that’s not down to the hardware, as VLC Media Player played them perfectly smoothly on the same computer, while Windows’ own Media Player and Photo apps only dropped a handful of frames.

For one thing, you can now upload images and movies directly to Nikon’s Image Space service and YouTube, respectively. You can also view slideshows with optional, user-provided background music, and the new program adds support for more obscure file formats such as 3D Multi Picture Object files or voice notes recorded on older Coolpix cameras.

Really, I can only find a couple of omissions. As mentioned previously, you can no longer undock interface panels, nor can you change whether they appear in the left or right-side palettes. Other than that, I couldn’t find any other missing features this time around.

However, on testing the program I’ve found its results with identical settings to be visually indistinguishable from those of NX-D, even though precise file sizes do differ fractionally at the same compression level. With that being the case, I’ll refer you to the second page of my earlier article , instead, for a more detailed analysis.

NX Studio is capable of delivering good image quality with very pleasing color and impressive shadow recovery, but feel Adobe still has a slight edge when it comes to fine detail at low sensitivities, which increases at higher sensitivities thanks to significantly stronger noise reduction from Nikon.

The good news is that with no noticeable change in image quality, and with all the same controls on offer as in both predecessors, NX Studio will read and apply all the same tweaks as did either earlier application, meaning you can upgrade without fear of having to rework all of your adjustments.

As for performance, which was already a strong point of Nikon’s software compared to that provided by many manufacturers, things are also pretty similar to before. Adobe still has a small but noticeable edge in the speed of final output processing, and a more substantial advantage in terms of preview performance. Using the same six comparison images as for my previous article, it took 28 seconds to complete the batch.

By way of comparison, performance leader Adobe still holds the crown with a time of In my time with Nikon NX Studio, I’ve found it to be very stable, but that’s not to say it’s perfect, nor would I expect a brand-new app to be. I’ve run across a couple of bugs, although only one strikes me as particularly significant.

And both are related to issues I found with the previous apps, as well. Firstly, there’s still an issue with detecting dragging of the right-panel scroll bar, regardless of whether the program is running maximized or not.

But where this only happened with my Dell Active Pen, it now also happens with both the touch screen and even when dragging with the mouse. Simply using the scroll wheel or a two-fingered touchpad swipe works around this, however.

The program also ignores Windows’ scaling settings entirely in mixed-resolution monitor setups when running on an ultra high-def screen. That makes it extremely difficult to use on a 4K display unless you either lower the resolution or disable your lower-res screen s. The good news is that Nikon is aware of this problem and working on a fix. In the meantime, desktop users with mixed-resolution displays can work around it using a scaling setting built into NX Studio, but notebook users will find that they constantly have to change this setting — which also requires an app restart — every time they disconnect or reconnect a display of differing resolution.

I have to say that it’s a big step in the right direction, giving photographers that use Nikon cameras a powerful editing application where they can perform most of the edits they’d want to. The most important thing here is that the new program provides basically everything of any significance from its two predecessors, allowing you to ditch one of them altogether.

Its new interface is noticeably better and easier on the eye, and its performance and image quality are just as good as before. I think this first iteration of NX Studio is a great replacement for Nikon’s earlier apps. I like NX Studio a lot. I do my selections and most of the editing here.

I want to see the difference between pictures, and before and after editing changes. But this is really difficult because between viewing the two results, the screen blacks out for several seconds. By then it’s hard to see the difference. There is a before and after function where photos are side by side with a scroll function, both showing at the same time. No black out. A 12 MB file gets shrunk to about 1. That should be addressed, as it is a real drawback.

No dual display support? Everything else seems so far to be an improvement, or at least an equivalent to ViewNX-i, but not being able to open the selected image on my second display is very disappointing indeed. I run it with dual displays with no issues. I did have to figure out the settings to make it happen however. Do a search on-line and you will find the directions to make it happen. What I was after was menus on one smaller screen and image alone on the other.

How have the fixed menu locations on Studio affected the dual screens? For people with large numbers of files, should offer the option of showing file names in a compact format rather than thumbnails taking up huge amounts of the screen.

The results are excellent and the software is quite speedy and the new workflow is much quicker. Thanks Nikon for a great professional grade, free, software.

So far, it has crashed on my Win 10 PC several times, and it often refuses to actually execute things like Retouch. Convoluted to say the least. Nice freebie for a light user but definitely not in the same league as a professional tool like Lightroom, either cloud or classic. I have a decent setup, recent i7, 16GB ram, but NX studio runs kinda slow and my computer is churning away just to go through photos.

Strangely, when accessing photos via memory card, it’s much faster, so it doesn’t like pulling from my folder on the computer. Wondering if I set it up wrong or something I have set up the colours spaces so they are identical in NX and Affnity. When I export a tiff file to my harddisk and then open it in Affinity, the colors are spot on. I have never had this problem when exporting from Capture One Pro 10 to Affinity.

Any ideas? Other than that I really like the programme. But if I have to go the tiff route every time, I have to transfer a raw-file to Affinity that is definitely a “deal breaker” even though the programme is free.

Finally figured out what happened. NX studio simple throws the raw-edit, I have done, away when it sends the raw-file to Affinity. Nice work Nikon or something Bye Bye Nx Studio. I am used to that possibility in ViewNX Yes but you cannot specify the required file type. If you edit a raw file in studio and then open in something else from studio, the raw file is passed to the other program.

NX-D allowed one to specify 16 bit for example. I’ll stick with NX-D for now, hopefully they will fix this. Would not consider it a deal breaker, but agree that it complicates the workflow. I already posted it to Nikon and hope for an update in a not so far future. Another issue I found is noise reduction. The advanced settings which I could apply for my D files are not available.

I hoped for an update within NX-D or at least enhanced settings in NX Studio, but regrettably this has not been remedied yet. Come on, Nikon, you can do better Looked good for a couple of days but now constantly crashing my Windows 10 machine with ‘Page Fault in non-paged area’ – very disappointed :.

Yes, I’ve experienced similar issues and others as well posted below. I don’t think this is ready for use yet. I’ll be sticking with NXD for now for my initial processing of nature photos.

One challenge I’m going to have is figuring out how to revert back to View NX-i, which I find easier for tagging and meta data. With all the problems with NX-Studio, I can’t trust that it won’t mess up my edits if I try to use it for geotagging. Anyone know of a way to have something similar to the Photo Tray with this new program? I used it to sort out “keepers” then edited and exported them.

Expected focus stacking in NX studio so that a paid application altogether could be done away with. Using it, and colour me impressed!

Needs fine-tuning. One important note for me is that when it first opens the unedited the RAW files, I find that edges and details especially on fabrics and faces are not as good as Lightroom. Is it because Lightroom uses Sensei as a demosaic method?

The processor was struggling on the MacBook Air but the new M1 processor on makes it a breeze. After I downloaded and installed the new NX, my Photoshop stopped working.

Does anyone else have that problem too? I downloaded NX Studio not expecting much — not a fan of Capture. But Studio is pretty impressive. It loads quickly and has a good range of basic tools. I see myself using it a lot. So I notice the Photo tray is gone. Is there any way to do the same thing? I used it to hold all the images I wanted to edit. It looks good, but I don’t think I understand the color management options. Without getting weird results. ViewNX-i was quite sluggish on my system.

ViewNX-i would take a few minutes to start up on my system, which is a i7 3. Perhaps it was the size of my photo library that it was taking a long time to load. But NX Studio is quite snappy.

Oh its also great to see that data and edits can be placed directly into the raw file rather than side car. Its actually really good, I am pretty impressed with it, much better than having separate software for separate tasks.

 
 

 

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However, the program works just fine with JPEG images. After I downloaded and installed the new NX, my Photoshop stopped working. Nikon capture nx2 photo editing software reviews free Systems. Come on, Nikon, you can do better Edit and convert images in an easy to use, yet powerful professional-grade software. Hopefully they will fix all the missing things in the next version found several things that didn’t work. Although a lot of people only upload images to Instagram from their smartphones, the app is much more than just a mobile photography platform.