The plugin comes with set of filters for processing images. I would recommended anyone to use this with a digital camera. The structure includes 75 plug-in filters, and effects designed to enhance photos with color correction, retouching and many other operations.
Most importantly, the presets can now be manipulated and filtered in a recognizable way, and the U-Point port has also been updated to be consistent with the variations used in the additional Nik solution. Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3. The award-winning Color Efex Pro 3. In my opinion, it is the best filter in the toolkit.
Just like a traditional polarizing filter, this software equivalent does an admirable job of dulling reflective surfaces like windows and reflections in water, but its best use is for deepening the tone in blue skies.
Lots of cool presets to try out here. Give your images that retro feel by emulating the effect of cross processing E-6 slide film in C or vice-versa. This filter can produce some radical changes in the color tonality of an image. It can be used to shift the hues of green to blue or vice-versa , switch yellows to orange useful for night images , or swap from a cool to warm tone. Again, another filter designed to mimic the real thing. Grad filter plugins in Color Efex Pro are available in a variety of colors and when applied at a low opacity can help enhance an otherwise dull sky.
A major stylistic effect when applied correctly, is the bleach bypass filter. This reduces color saturation whilst increasing contrast for that super gritty feel. It works great with accentuating textures like rocks, gravel, stone and even snow.
By far the most infamous of all the filters, 'Pro Contrast' is rightly so one of the most useful in the toolkit, and many photographers absolutely swear by this filter. Pro Contrast works best as a final step in your editing workflow to bring out that 'pop'. It's hard to say exactly whats going on, but I believe it works on tonality and adjusts contrast variably across the image, rather than just a blanket increase across everything.
It's one of those subtle filters that does so much more than simply adjusting the native Contrast or Clarity sliders. October 31st Updated June 7th Peter Stewart. But you can also use the Nik Collection without a parent photo editing program. Nik is not a raw file converter.
There is a slight similarity in the user interface. But for the most part, the plugins function independently. At first glance, you may think Nik is simply a preset package. Most of the plugins include presets or recipes. Within many of the plugins are adjustment panels. Each includes sliders that control the specific effect. The tools combine to give your photo a unique look.
And you can save your unique collection of tools to use on future images. It is like being able to build your own specific Lightroom Develop module. Think of Control Points like radial filters in Lightroom.
Add a Control Point by clicking on your image. You now have control over the settings within the selected area. You can choose to add extra processing or remove the global settings. This plugin simulates the look of vintage cameras , film, and lenses. It adds film photo effects like light leaks, scratches, motion blurs, and double exposures. This plugin is a popular colour editing tool. Filters cover basic exposure adjustments but go further with adjustments like Detail Extractor, Glamour Glow, Reflector Efex, a Foliage enhancer.
You can control how the images combine in terms of tonality, colour, depth, and detail. Presharpening enhances the detail of an image. Output Sharpening sharpens the image for printing.
This plugin is a popular black and white conversion program. Like Color Efex Pro, filters let you selectively change the look of your image. You can adjust structure, film grain, tonality, and tone colour. Viveza is another colour enhancement program.
It emphasizes localized adjustments using Control Points. Control Points are like radial filters. You can globally change colours or select an area for enhancement. The newest addition to the Nik line-up is Perspective Efex. It was launched in with Nik Collection 3.
It automatically adjusts known lens-specific distortions, or you can manually alter geometric distortions. This popular suite of photo editing plugins has a history. Nik plugins have been around since the late s. They were developed by Nik Software, which also developed Snapseed , a popular mobile phone editing app.
Google picked up Nik in This made it much more accessible to the casual photographer and increased its popularity. They also added the powerful Analog Efex Pro plugin to the collection.
In , Google made the suite free. This was great for photographers! The Nik Collection was about to fade into the history books. Enter DxO, a company with a history of developing photo editing tools. We all waited to see what DxO had planned for the software.
In , DxO released Nik Collection 3, their first main upgrade to the suite. For many users, the changes were not immediately apparent. But they there was foundational work going on behind the scenes. They upgraded the interface within Adobe Photoshop. The most apparent change was the introduction of a new plugin, Perspective Efex.
In Nik Collection 3, there were tweaks and upgrades, but what DxO did not do was put their distinctive stamp on the Nik plugins. This seems to be changing with the new release. With Nik Collection 4, DxO has made more apparent changes. However, these changes are isolated and not across the board.
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