So I vote for a clean, bug-free browser and raw converter instead of a program so complicated that its makers can't make it work consistently and correctly. ![]() NX-D seems to not interfere with the rest of the system and acts like a normal program, at least in this latest beta. I guess Nikon never thought that people might be doing other things while they're waiting for NX2 to finish doing what it is doing e.g. And doing this can take tens of seconds it is sometimes so unresponsive. In NX2, when I for example want to switch to a different program and press alt-tab to switch to it, NX2 adjustment control panels are still displayed on top of the other software I'm using and I have to go back to NX2 and minimize it before it stops floating its windows above the other software. If NX-D provides better integration between browsing and adjustments, as it appears to do (in NX2 I find using the browser is very slow and it'll take a while to open up the file, whereas in NX-D you can do adjustments immediately after viewing the file (it seems to load it in the background?)), I would prefer it to be a bug-free, straightforward tool for browsing and raw adjustments instead of something that tries to do some of the things of a full image editor but regularly crashes or inteferes with the operation of the rest of the system. I think keeping NX-D simple is a good thing as there were lots of bugs in the history of NX and NX2 which no doubt resulted from complexity of the software and inadequate testing. Is Google or Nik going to do further development of their PS and LR plugins with control points, or is the technology going to be buried? If in the future I can't use control points, I will just do masks and all that stuff in Photoshop, it'll take 15 min instead of 30 sec but in the end there is more control so perhaps it is for the best. I do initial adjustments (white balance, crop, rotate, etc.) and sometimes local adjustments of the sky or faces in NX2, and then transfer the image (slowly! it takes a while on a NAS drive) into PS for further steps of processing. ![]() But in the end if I do colour correction of the skin, I do it in PS, and I also prefer the sharpening tools available in PS. Yes, control points won't be implemented in NX-D, and this is a loss as some things were a lot easier and quicker to do using them than in PS (at least without plugins).
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