Nikon has an overview of the different types & stuff, but I'll quickly summarize some. There's Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, and Landscape. Using Picture Controls are like choosing a type of film to shoot with. That was actually a lot easier than I expected. Then I just moved the slider until I was happy. I've clicked Exposure Compensation, which brings up the corresponding panel. The icons on the left, from the top: Snapshots (versions, so you can save settings/history), Exposure Compensation, White Balance, Picture Control, uh, the next one is actually two buttons side by side, Tone and Tone (Detail), and. Oh, I've closed the extra panels in NX-D so it's just showing the photo and the edit panel. I could have retaken it with a proper exposure, but where's the fun in that? :3 I decided to use my Nikon 1 J1 instead of my DSLR to get more of a challenge, which worked because the photo turned out very underexposed. Step 3 There's no step 3, you've started. Step 2: Launch NX-D and navigate to the imported NEF file on your computer. Step 1: take a photo with a Nikon camera as RAW. Plus the RAW conversions are just gorgeous. It lets you use lots of features like Active D-Lighting, automatic distortion correction, CA correction, lens vignette compensation (for Nikon lenses), and most importantly, Nikon Picture Controls. Nikon puts as much effort into their image processing algorithms as they put into their hardware, so to really get the most out of a Nikon camera you should use Nikon Capture. There's really not a lot of info out there for using Nikon Capture, which is unfortunate.

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