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Analog Efex Pro

Analog Efex Pro is part of the DxO Nik Collection. It recreates the look of old films, darkroom processes and vintage cameras by combining image adjustments and filter effects as presets which you can apply with a single click or customise yourself.

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, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog Efex Pro, Detail Extractor, HDR, Nik Collection

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, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog Efex Pro, Detail Extractor, Film simulation, Grain, Textures, Vignette

Analog Efex Pro 2 review

June 24, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 5 stars Analog Efex Pro2 goes way beyond most analog photography filters, offering not just film styles, grain effects and borders, but creative vignetting, bokeh, lens blur, lens distortion, double-exposures, motion blur and more.

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Bokeh, Borders and frames, Film simulation, Grain, Nik Collection, Plug-ins, Tilt shift

How to get started with Analog Efex Pro

June 16, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro is one of the plug-ins in the Nik Collection. It works as a plug in with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop but it can also work as a standalone program or as an external editor with all sorts of other programs like Capture One, Exposure X and more. It’s designed to recreate the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Bokeh, Borders and frames, Camera Kit (Analog Efex Pro), Film simulation, Light leak, Nik Collection, Non-destructive editing, Toning, Vignette

Nik Collection tips: image effects, ideas and insights for the Nik plug ins

June 13, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Hand coloured black and white with a bi-colour filter

The best Nik Collection plug ins are so deep you might never completely get to the bottom of what they do. Here’s a series of tips and ideas for Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, Analog Efex Pro and Viveza.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection Tagged With: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Silver Efex Pro

DxO Nik Collection 3 review

June 3, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Verdict: 5 stars The Nik Collection is an evergreen plug-in suite that’s as fresh, varied and exciting now as when it was first launched a decade ago. The new Perspective Efex plug-in is a major bonus and the new ‘non-destructive workflow’ is rather clever.

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Dfine, HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Sharpener Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza

Free Analog Efex Pro presets (and how to install them)

April 19, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro preset export and import

Welcome to the fourth and final part of this mini-series on Google’s brand new film and camera simulation plug-in, Analog Efex Pro. It joins the existing plug-ins in the Nik Collection, now owned and distributed by DxO. Note: Following many requests, I’m republishing this article with the download link restored but the content unchanged. This […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Presets

Add zoom blur with a twist

August 18, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro zoom blur

Zoom blur is a popular bit tricky little technique where you zoom the lens during the exposure so that you get a kind of radial blur from the centre of the picture. This means using a shutter speed long enough to capture this rapid zoom movement, which usually means you get plenty of regular blur […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Nik Collection

6 tips for getting an authentic analog film effect

November 29, 2016 by Rod Lawton

Modern cameras can reproduce the world with utter, clinical accuracy. The trouble is, it turns out that’s not what we wanted after all. A lot of the time, what we actually want is the faded, distressed, imperfect look of analog photography. So here are six top tips for getting that analog film effect ‘look’ with […]

Filed Under: Featured, General, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Analog, Analog Efex Pro, Bokeh, Borders and frames, Film simulation, Grain, Nik Collection, Textures, Vignette

Top tips for creating and saving Analog Efex Pro custom presets

November 2, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro custom presets

Google’s brand new Analog Efex Pro plug-in is the latest component in Google’s Nik Collection. It comes with a selection of preset camera and film effects to reproduce the look of traditional analog photography, but I’ve been spending some time trying them out and using the Analog Efex Pro Camera Kit (see part 2 of […]

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