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The most powerful tool to selectively control color and light in your photographs.

Creating great photography involves mastery of color and light. Powered by Nik Software’s patented U Point technology, new Viveza 2 allows photographers of any skill level to quickly enhance their images using innovative tools designed for speed and efficiency.

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Push your pixels to the next level

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Article discussing new software and hardware tools to add some creativity to ho-hum photos. Photoshop Elements 8 and Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 are discussed along with plugins from Alien Skin and Nik Software:

Concentrate instead on plugins — separate software packages that work within photo-editing software and perform astonishing feats.

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Black and white photo magic

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The quickest and dirtiest colour-to-monochrome technique is to change the image mode to greyscale in a photo-editing program. Slightly better is to use the colour-to-black-and-white converter built into every photo-editing program.

A more complex (and our preferred) method is to change the picture mode to Labcolour, select the Lightness channel, change […]

Masking Mastery With Viveza for Photoshop

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If you’ve ever tried to alter the color and light values of specific areas of a picture, you know it can be a time-consuming, frustrating, skill-intensive task. First, you have to carefully and expertly select the area with a mask. After you make your adjustments to the selected area, you then […]

Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 – PC Advisor Review

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Some special effects and filters are fun or useful; only a few become absolute necessities. Nik Software Color Efex Pro is in that latter category because it is not only one of the finest collections of Photoshop-compatible plug-in filters available, its quality and versatility make it almost indispensable.

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Purchase Nik Sharpener Pro 3.0, get Dfine 2.0 free! Save $65!

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Sharpener Pro 3.0 Purchase Nik Sharpener Pro 3.0, get Dfine 2.0 free! A $65 value for students and teachers! Offer good while supplies last.

Make Digital Photos Look Like Film B&W With Nik Software Silver EFX Pro

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Even in this digital age, black and white photography remains a touchstone of the art. No wonder every imaging program has simple tools to convert color images to grayscale. However, none of those utilities gave us the kind of accessible creative control over quality, grain, tonality, and dynamic range that we used […]

Color Efex Pro makes Lightroom photos pop

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Of all the many plug-ins available for Photoshop to instantly enhance photos, one of the best is Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro. Now it’s available for Adobe’s Lightroom too, a great time-saver for Lightroom fans.

Color Efex (prices start at $99.95) is a series of over 50 filters that do things such […]

Nik Silver Efex Pro Review

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Silver Efex Pro efficiently produces great black-and-white effects that are fiddly to create in Photoshop alone. Silver Efex Pro runs responsively, even as a Smart Filter. It also works on 8- and 16-bit images in both RGB and CMYK. Overall it produces great black-and-white effects that are fiddly to create in […]

Nik Complete Collection with free Lightroom 2 Special!

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Nik Complete Collection with free Lightroom 2 Mac/Windows

Purchase the Nik Complete Collection for $599.95 and receive Photoshop Lightroom 2 for free! Offer good through 2/28/2009.