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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.

How to use control points in Silver Efex Pro 2

September 1, 2013 by Life after Photoshop

Nik Software Silver Efex Pro control points

Black and white photography relies heavily on dodging and burning to add emphasis to certain parts of the image, to balance or contrast areas of tone, and improve the overall composition – and Silver Efex Pro’s control points let you do this in moments, without masks or selections. You don’t always need them. Silver Efex […]

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

Get better tonal adjustments with the Tonal Contrast filter in Color Efex Pro

August 29, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Nik Software Color Efex Pro Tonal Contrast filter

You can make basic tonal adjustments with levels and more sophisticated modifications with curves, but the Tonal Contrast filter in DxO Color Efex Pro goes a whole step further. The problem with curves adjustments is that any change you make in one area of the image curve has a knock-on effect on the rest. If […]

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Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Clarity

How to create a red filter effect in Silver Efex Pro

August 25, 2013 by Life after Photoshop

Nik Software Silver Efex Pro red filter

Nik Software must have discovered some unknown digital alchemy when it developed Silver Efex Pro. Suddenly, here was a digital imaging tool that really could replicate the look, feel and even the ‘soul’ of silver-based black and white. And one of the favourite tools of traditional black and white photographers was the ‘contrast’ filter. These […]

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

How to create your own processing recipe in Color Efex Pro 4

August 22, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Nik Software Color Efex Pro recipes

Color Efex Pro 4 doesn’t just boast a huge list of great filter effects, it also lets you ‘stack’ them in combination and then save your own, unique style as a ‘Recipe’. Nik Software really pulled out all the stops with Color Efex Pro 4. There were many useful additions and tweaks to the filters, […]

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Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Film simulation

How to create a fine art effect with Silver Efex Pro 2

August 18, 2013 by Life after Photoshop

Silver Efex Pro fine art

Fine art can mean a whole lot of different things, but here I’m just going to show how to turn a colour image into a simple graphic composition that could work quite nicely when you hang it on your wall. There are two things you need in order for this to work. One is an […]

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

Ho to get an HDR effect from a single image in Color Efex Pro

August 15, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Nik Software Color Efex Pro Detail Extractor

There are so many filters in Color Efex Pro that it can take a long, long time to work out all the things that it can do. Some of the tools are obvious, like Levels and Curves or Graduated Filters, but some are less so, and the Detail Extractor is a prime example. It sounds […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: HDR

How to save a preset for Kodak Tri-X black and white in Silver Efex Pro

August 11, 2013 by Life after Photoshop

Nik Software Silver Efex Pro Tri-X preset

Anyone who used to shoot with black and white film will have a favourite, and I always had a soft spot for Kodak Tri-X. I didn’t mind the grain because I liked that gritty, ‘documentary’ feel, and sometimes I push-processed during development to get a little more contrast, especially in the depths of the Northern […]

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

Adding localised levels and curves adjustments in Color Efex Pro 4

August 8, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Nik Software Color Efex Pro levels and curves

DxO Color Efex Pro 4 isn’t just a collection of special effects. It also has a number of powerful image-editing tools hidden amongst them, and one of these is the Levels & Curves tool. You can use this to make adjustments to your images in the same way you would in Photoshop, Elements and other […]

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Filed Under: Nik Collection, TutorialsTagged With: Curves, Levels

Use edge burning to enhance your composition in Silver Efex Pro 2

August 4, 2013 by Life after Photoshop

Nik Software Silver Efex Pro edge burning

Burning in the edges of your pictures is a great way to enhance the composition because it improves the picture’s overall contrast and helps you concentrate attention on the picture’s focal point. The point is that converting your pictures to black and white is just the start, and ‘digital’ techniques like channel mixing are useful […]

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

How to create a moonlight effect in Color Efex Pro 4

August 1, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Nik Software Color Efex Pro Midnight filter

If you look at any old Hollywood film you’d see they had a standard technique for creating ‘moonlight’. They’d simply shoot in bright sunlight, reduce the exposure and give the picture a blue tinge. The bizarre thing was that it worked – it did give the appearance of ‘night’. Moonlight isn’t actually blue, though. If […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Tutorials

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