Complete Guide to the Nikon D200- P22 pot

V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 631 Several things are important here: • Be careful of the Delete option. I think it’s generally wiser and safer to reformat cards to remove files. • You’ll want Rotate ON. If you’ve set rotation ON in the camera, make sure it’s set to ON here, too. • IPTC data should be added. If you’re selling your photos or sharing them with others, both these items should probably be checked, as it allows for additional identifying information to automatically be copied to the IPTC fields. (Nikon promises a more complete IPTC implementation in future versions of View.) The Creator tab allows you to specify which programs are used for certain actions within View (normally, View assigns Capture as the image editor, so if you use Photoshop CS you’ll want to change that). One nice aspect of Nikon View is that it allows you to rename files and add IPTC information during the transfer (something I generally recommend; see “File Names and Folders” on page < H163>): 1. Click on the Change button on the Nikon Transfer dialog. V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 632 2. In the dialog that appears, fill out the File Destination and Naming options. 3. If you want to change the file names during transfer (highly recommended), click the Change radio button and then the Change button under the File naming section and select your options. V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 633 4. Click the OK button when you’re done and you’ll be returned to the File Destination and Naming dialog. 5. Perform the same actions for the folder name (e.g. change the destination folder as desired). 6. Click on the big yellow Transfer button to start the transfer. If you asked to Start Nikon Browser in the Transfer window, when the transfer completes you’ll be taken to the Browser window, where you can then view, print, and rotate your images (if you still need to): V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 634 In the Browser window, you can only perform a few actions (the icon bar gives you quick access to them). At the top, you’ll see a bar labeled Shooting Data. Click on the > at the left edge to reveal this information (or hide it). The data shown is for the currently selected image (highlighted with a selection rectangle around it). V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 635 By default, the left of the main window is a standard hierarchical file browser. In the two sample windows immediately above, the first one has the file browser showing, the second doesn’t. If for some reason you don’t see the file browser window, choose Show Folder Tree from the Navigation submenu on the View menu. This allows you to navigate amongst all the folders of images you’ve created (assuming you’ve been following my workflow suggestions, you’ll have a well-labeled folder for every shoot). Finally, Nikon View has a rudimentary image viewer in it. Double-click on an image thumbnail to invoke it: V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 636 When you doubleclick on an image thumbnail, you get the Nikon Viewer window. The icons at the top allow you to zoom in or out and a few other basic options. If you want to manipulate the image in any way, you need Capture, Bibble, Photoshop CS, Photoshop CS2, Photoshop Elements, or another image editing program. Things you can do with Nikon View: • Batch rename images. Select the images to be renamed, and then select Rename Automatically from the File menu. • Search for a file. Curiously, one of the attributes Nikon allows you to search with is the Scene exposure mode. Sigh. The more interesting ability is to search by filename (which, of course, is one of the reasons why I want you to give files meaningful names in the first place). Select Show Search Control on the Navigation submenu on the View menu. • Create a slide show. Select the images you want to show (you don’t have to show everything in a folder). Select Slideshow from the Tools menu. Select your options from the slideshow dialog that appears. To hide the option dialog, press Shift+Tab together. • Email images or a contact sheet of images to a friend. Select the images you want to email. Select Email from the Tools menu. Select your options from the dialog that appears. Usually you’ll let Nikon View resize the images to a smaller size for emailing (it’s not proper etiquette to send large files to someone unless they’re expecting them—most email services have storage limits for email, V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 637 and a handful of 1MB images can quickly fill their mailbox and prevent other mail from being received F 154 ). • Export images to a Web site. Select the images you want to create a Web page for. Select Export as HTML Files from the Tools menu. This brings up the first of three dialogs you need to fill out: This first dialog is about the overall style of Web page that will be created. Here you set the size, style, and number of images per page (plus a title for the page). 154 Proper etiquette, even for someone you know, would be to ask before sending and tell them what size the images will be. Better still would be to use a public posting service, such as pbase (http://www.pbase.com ) and simply email the URL to the recipient. Since we’re on the subject, I should warn you that my email has very aggressive filters on it. If you want me to look at an image, post a modest sized version of it on a public posting service that doesn’t require an account to enter, and send me the URL via email. V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 638 The second dialog defines what information appears with each image (filename, date, capture data, etc.). The final dialog tells View where to create the new HTML pages. It’s usually safest to save to a new subfolder so that everything for a set is grouped together in the same place rather than mixed with the rest of your Web pages. • Invoke an image editor. Select an image (or images). Choose Edit from the File menu to invoke the editor entered in Preferences. Choose Edit using other program from the File menu and point to the editor you V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 639 wish to use if you want to use something more sophisticated. Note: What’s the difference between Nikon Editor and Nikon Capture Editor? Well, the first is free and comes with Nikon View. It contains basic controls only (you can change white balance and exposure for NEF files, for example). Nikon Capture Editor is part of Nikon Capture and is a very sophisticated image editing program. Nikon Editor (the free one) isn’t enough for serious post-processing work. If you’re trying to conserve cash, Adobe Photoshop Elements would be the logical choice to use instead. Earlier in the book I discussed IPTC information (see “IPTC” on page < H161>). Nikon View allows you to append basic camera information into the IPTC fields, which I discussed above, but it also allows you to add both simple and complex IPTC captioning information. Select IPTC Information from the File menu and you’ll get the “simple” dialog: For most uses, this is probably enough (note that I’ve added several of my keywords here, which is how I search for V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 640 images later). But if you want to get the full spectrum of fields you can enter, click the Detail button and you’ll get this screen: If you’re entering IPTC information for a group of images and most of the information is the same for each photo, note that you can “save” and “load” information. For this Death Valley shoot, I saved all the items except for the Caption, loaded them for all the images then went through and wrote captions for each. Other programs exist that do a better job of this than Nikon View, but View isn’t a slouch, either. A lot of people overlook the many features that are hidden underneath View’s simple interface, and this is one of them. [...]... Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 655 V1.03 The tools on these palettes work a bit unconventionally: • To open a tool so that you can see its settings, click on the > icon at the left of the tool name In the tool palettes shown above, no tools are open (we’ll get to the details of each later in this section) • To change the settings for a tool, you must usually first click in the box to the. .. of modifications to images You may: Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 659 V1.03 • Select a portion of the image to output Select the crop tool ( in the Quick Tools palette; called “crop cursor” in Nikon documentation) Click on the upper left boundary you want to crop to and, holding the mouse button down, drag the mouse to the lower right boundary you desire This tool confuses some... changes and wanted to look at the conversion with only some of those changes in effect versus all of them 1 Make the first set of changes using Capture’s tools 2 Click the Add button in the Markers tool; you’ll be asked to name this waypoint: 3 Make additional changes to your image Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 657 V1.03 4 Click the Add button in the Markers tool and give this... a few things you’ll want to set Select Options from the Tools menu (Nikon Capture Editor menu on the Macintosh) and: 1 On the General tab: a Click the Browse button next to Open saved images in and navigate to the location of your preferred image editor (e.g Photoshop CS2), and select it b If you save tool settings you want to use on every image, click the Browse button next to “User Default” image... tabs Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 650 V1.03 The second tab has a virtual Direction pad at the top to control the AF sensor area (click the arrow buttons) The actively chosen sensor (or group of sensors as in the example shown) is shown to the right of the virtual Direction pad This screen also does an interesting thing and throws in one of the Custom Settings, Auto ISO (and yes,... on the CompactFlash card (Make sure to save the image on the computer where you can find it!) You control the transfer situation by clicking on the Download Options button Note: • The Enable controls on the camera body option must be checked for this to work Use Nikon Capture Camera Control to set the camera options and virtually press the shutter release Again, the Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the. .. have to pick one of the six areas of settings (a through f) in the pop-up immediately below the bank pop-up The Prev and Next buttons at the bottom also take you between the six areas Some users may find these dialogs easier to use to set the camera than the scrolling Custom Settings menus on the camera, mainly because the names are expanded and more easily deciphered Now comes the payoff for all these... more tools exists: Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 656 V1.03 The Histogram tool is the least interesting, as it’s function is duplicated in several other places in Capture, but the Markers tool is very interesting: at any time you can add a “marker point,” a fancy way of saying that you can mark the way the image currently looks (e.g the tools in use) so that you can come back to that... image To change the crop, grab the side or corner and drag it to a new position (or drag the middle of the crop to a new position) The real sticking point is: how do you cancel the crop? Press Command-D Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 641 V1.03 (or select Select Entire Image from the Image menu, or double-click outside the crop area) It really is that easy But it usually stops newcomers... Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 647 V1.03 Note that you’re given essentially three things to set: • How the batch is processed Applying the settings from the camera is the same as leaving these settings in the Unchanged state in Advanced Raw section of the Capture Editor The camera’s sharpening and other optimization settings will be applied by Capture before saving the image More . at the bottom of the camera viewfinder. • The buttons at the bottom of the window are the equivalent to the shutter release. The camera will also have PC displayed in its top LCD where the. from the File menu and point to the editor you V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 639 wish to use if you want to use something more sophisticated. Note: What’s the. < H163>): 1. Click on the Change button on the Nikon Transfer dialog. V1.03 Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D200 Page 632 2. In the dialog that appears, fill out the File Destination