It did a lot right, and I really usually enjoyed working with it. For all its quirks, CNX2 was a very competent program underneath, with excellent B&W conversion, with useful local repair brush, genuinely useful and easy-to-use selection mechanisms. It just has its name setting a wrong expectation. As per earlier postings on the NX-D subject - I do not think it is a horrible tool (I know it sounded like I was saying that, but I meant otherwise). Overall, the second beta did not change my mind much for the brief period I tried it. Ilkka, I tried the second beta really only very short, you're right that I might have missed improvements there. If you do find bugs in it, do send Nikon a note as they seem to address problems rapidly at this stage. Wouter, did you try the latest beta? I know the first one was rough, but I didn't run into any problems with the second (preferring it to NX2). I hope that the simpler NX-D will have a reasonably bug-free career. Sometimes good stuff is lost in corporate acquisitions. I liked control points and used them occasionally, but I can understand why they won't be supported in the new software (since they were a Nik creation, and Google bought Nik). Local adjustments are available in other software, such as Photoshop (which I need to use anyway, for retouching, colour correction, sharpening etc.) I just prefer to use Nikon software for the raw conversion. For me as long as it can be read and original settings restored it doesn't matter much either way. Also many people seem to prefer that the original raw files are left untouched and edits are stored separately. These kinds of performance problems and user interface programming issues have always plagued NX2, so in that sense I'm glad Nikon is moving on NX-D seems to have quite an elegant way of bridging the browsing, raw editing and conversion to TIFF whereas with NX2 there was a long delay before the file was properly displayed after selection, whereas NX-D seems to be doing it in the background so it's more seamless. To get rid of those windows I have to switch back to NX2, wait 10-20 seconds for it to appear as active window, then minimize NX2, and return to the other software, which now displays normally). At least its latest beta behaved very well and didn't hi-jack the windows user interface like NX2 often does (when I switch from NX2 to other software, such as Photoshop CC, quite often NX2 leaves its toolbar and edit list windows on top of the software that I'm actively using. Right, but NX-D will probably be the better software by then.
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