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DxO Nik Collection

Now up to Nik Collection 5, the Nik Collection consists of eight different plug-ins, including four of the best creative tools for photographers you can buy today. Silver Efex Pro is still unrivalled for its black and white photography effects, Color Efex Pro has a dazzling array of photographic effects, Analog Efex Pro is superb at evoking classic analog film and darkroom effects and HDR Efex Pro makes HDR merging and editing easy enough for anyone to get great results straight out of the box. The new plug in, Perspective Efex, corrects perspective distortion and more.

Recreating Kodak HIE black and white infra-red film digitally

April 23, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Kodak HIE infra-red film was one of my favorite films, delivering dense black skies, dreamy soft highlights and heavy grain. Can I get the same effect digitally?

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Nik CollectionTagged With: Black and white, Infra red, Red filter

Dramatic skies and silhouettes with Silver Efex Pro

April 18, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Silver Efex Pro

I love Silver Efex Pro. It’s a black and white photography plug-in developed by Nik Software and now part of the DxO Nik Collection. What makes it great is that it recaptures the look and feel of traditional darkroom black and white in a way that other plug-ins don’t. The preset effects down the left […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Silver Efex Pro

Color Efex Pro’s B/W Conversion filter is surprisingly good

April 17, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Color Efex Pro might not be your first choice for black and white conversions when the Nik Collection also has Silver Efex Pro and Analog Efex Pro, but if you want strong results fast, it might be just what you need.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials

Volume distortion: this is what it looks like and this tool can fix it

April 15, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Volume distortion (or volumetric distortion) is not a familiar term to most photographers, but it’s what makes ultra-wide shots look distorted at the edges, and it can be fixed… by the right software.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Aberrations, Barrel distortion, Distortion, Volumetric distortion

The best photo editing software for organizing, editing, RAW and effects

March 4, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Choosing the best image editing software can be complicated. It all depends on what you look for most in your photo editing software. Here are 12 programs with their own distinct strengths.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab, Photoshop, Reviews, SidebarTagged With: Affinity Photo, Aperture (Apple), Asset management, Capture One, Cataloguing software, DAM (Digital Asset Management), Exposure X (software), Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Luminar (Skylum), Nik Collection (DxO), ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab (DxO), RAW processing

DxO Nik Collection 4.2 update tackles compatibility and responsiveness

October 2, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

With this Nik Collection 4.2 update, DxO says it has improved the responsiveness of the U-point adjustment tools in Silver Efex Pro 3, fixed a compatibility issue with Capture One and made the Nik plug-ins work with Photoshop in native M1 mode on new Macs.

Filed Under: Featured, News, Nik Collection

Viveza 3 review

August 21, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 3.8 stars Viveza is a great tool for making fast and effective adjustments to colour images, but even with the improvements in version 3 it still feels less useful than the other Nik plug-ins.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Reviews

The Detail Extractor in Analog Efex Pro is like a magic bullet for contrast issues

August 25, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro, part of the DxO Nik Collection has an excellent tool that’s easily missed but lies at the heart of many of this software’s striking analog film effects.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro (Nik Collection), HDR, Nik Collection (DxO)

How to customise Analog Efex Pro presets

August 23, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro, part of the DxO Nik Collection, has some great vintage film effect presets, but you don’t have to use them exactly as they are provided. It’s very easy to customise and adapt these presets to give exactly the kind of look you want.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Analog Efex Pro (Nik Collection), Control point, Film simulation, Grain, Nik Collection (DxO), Presets, Textures, Toning, Vignette

Photo editing software downloads: links to trial versions listed here

July 7, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Almost all the software applications reviewed and described on Life after Photoshop are available as a free trial, and here are the links. I always recommend using the trial version before making your mind up.

Filed Under: Aurora HDR, Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab

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