Nikon's Capture NX Upgrade Released

Nikon today released an upgrade to its Capture NX software. Capture NX version 1.1 boasts several new improvements including increased performance, full support for Intel-based Mac OS X computers, and optimization for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system.

In addition to these advancements Nikon has made several usability updates based on software testing and customer feedback. Capture NX 1.1 now sports a simpler user interface that has added improvements such as resizable palettes for histograms and curves and levels adjustments.

Capture NX 1.1 is designed specifically for photographers, providing a user-friendly interface, featuring tools that serve photographers needs, without the complexity and clutter of other image editing applications.

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The software can be used with JPEG and TIFF format images from any source, and its patented U Point technology offers photographers a dramatically simplified way to edit their pictures by enabling them to enhance specific areas of a picture selectively, without the use of masks, selections, or layers.

Capture NX 1.1 also works with Nikon’s RAW (NEF) format images, and inherits Nikon’s robust RAW processing capabilities for the highest quality results from NEF files.

Capture NX 1.1 is available for download immediately and can be purchased for an estimated selling price of $149.95 as a full boxed version or downloadable key. A 30-day trial version is available, for new users, and can be downloaded here.