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Using Nikon Capture for Color Management With The Multi-Image Window


Click image for a fullsized screenshot in a new window.

First you click the menu File, then click Open multi-image window or use the shortcut Ctrl+T.

Set it up so that you have all the images in the folder as thumbs along the top, but you click on any one image, and work that image, with any of the Nikon Capture tools to adjust color, crop, rotate, USM you name it, any tool they offer, you can apply to one image, once you have the one adjusted to perfection, you can then apply that same set of adjustments to any image in that folder, or even all images.

I actually highlight and apply my general two adjustments to all images in the folder at one time, and that is to adjust curves just a tad, and add a very slight amount of USM, but after all you need to understand I shoot in RAW capture, but if you shoot using JPEG capture, you can leave that out because you will be doing that in camera most likely.

You open and make any adjustment you wish for any given image, then click the Icon to copy those adjustments which is the second down on the left of the tall two column set of tool icons you will find to the right on this screen capture.

You then highlight any image you wish to copy that set of adjustment to by doing the following.

If you have a continuous group, you click the first image and hold down the "shift" key and click the last and it will highlight all that fall in-between also.

If you wish to pas one over, in my example here, I didn't want to apply to the third image the same adjustments as I wanted for the first image, to do that, hold down the Ctrl key and click any image you wish to highlight.

Then all you have to do is depress Ctrl+V to paste that set of adjustments you stored in the clipboard when you told it to copy, and it will apply that set of adjustments to all the highlighted images.

This happens in a second, because it is only tagging that information right then, it is not re-writing the file yet.

You go through your whole folder, adjusting one or several, in groups that need the same adjustment, once the whole folder is done, you then click to close the multi-image window and it will ask if you wish to save the adjustments, and click all, and it will proceed to batch process the entire folder according to the adjustments that you decided upon for each image or each group of images.

I hope this helps you, it saves a ton of time in the workflow, even if you do not shoot with Nikon but use JPEG capture you can use this.

You can do almost the same thing with Adobe camera RAW with Photoshop CS2, but I like this much better, it offers more control and can be done with JPEG files also, not just RAW files.




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