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HDR Efex Pro

HDR Efex Pro is a software plug-in for creating HDR (high dynamic range) effects from single images or bracketing sets of exposures. It's part of the DxO Nik Collection. You can apply preset HDR styles with a single click or adjust and make your own effects using extensive manual controls.

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

Using HDR Efex Pro for everyday enhancement

April 18, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Usually, HDR images are pretty obvious. The technique is part of the ‘look’. But it’s also possible to use HDR to enhance regular images to add depth and drama, but winding the effect back just a little so that it’s no longer center stage. So for this shot I used DxO PhotoLab and HDR Efex […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: DxO PhotoLab, HDR, HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection

HDR Efex Pro review

June 16, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4 stars HDR Efex Pro 2 manages to make HDR relatively easy, and it produces ‘good’ HDR which is dynamic, rich and exciting. It still wraps it up in a bit too much jargon, but it does produce a good variety of ready-made HDR presets so that you don’t have to get caught up in the manual adjustments if you don’t want to.

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Reviews Tagged With: HDR, HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection

Get better Lightroom HDR with the help of HDR Efex Pro

November 30, 2016 by Rod Lawton

The Lightroom HDR tools built in are good in their way, but will only get you so far. Yes, you can boost the shadows, reduce the highlights, add some Clarity and Dehaze and maybe a graduated filter for the sky, but you can end up doing a lot of work only getting half way to the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: HDR, HDR Efex Pro, Lightroom, Nik Collection

The Google Nik Collection is now available free of charge!

March 24, 2016 by Rod Lawton

Analog Efex Pro

Google announced today that it’s scrapping the $150 purchase price for the Google Nik Collection and that users can now download it free of charge. At first glance, this is pretty amazing news but, reading between the lines of Google’s official statement, this may not be as great as it sounds: “As we continue to […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection

Boost your landscapes with HDR Efex Pro

November 10, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Boost landscapes with HDR Efex Pro

HDR Efex Pro isn’t just for special effects. It can enhance your images in much more straightforward ways, improving the tonal balance, sky detail and colour saturation. I like to use it on landscapes, where professionals can wait for hours for the right lighting, but the rest of us have to grab shots when we […]

Filed Under: Nik Collection, Tutorials Tagged With: Graduated filters, HDR, HDR Efex Pro, Nik Collection, Structure, Warmth

Have you ever tried HDR Efex Pro portraits?

October 3, 2013 by Rod Lawton

HDR Efex Pro portraits

HDR techniques are usually associated with surreal landscapes and architectural photography, but you can create HDR Efex Pro portraits for some unique and powerful effects. This works best with male subjects because it creates a dark, brooding look where every pore and wrinkle is emphasised. I’m starting with this informal photograph taken in the family […]

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

How to use the HDR Efex Pro merge tools

September 26, 2013 by Rod Lawton

HDR Efex Pro merge tools

Like other HDR tools, HDR Efex Pro 2 is designed to work with a sequence of bracketed exposures which cover a wider dynamic range than a single image could record. This means you need to pay special attention to the HDR Efex Pro merge tools. You’ll see these whenever you open a series of images, […]

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

Learn how to use HDR Efex Pro 2 presets

September 19, 2013 by Rod Lawton

HDR Efex Pro 2 presets

Nik Software HDR Efex Pro 2 is now part of the DxO Nik Collection, but the software itself is unchanged – it remains one of the most approachable and most effective HDR tools you can get. But while the bundled HDR Efex Pro 2 presets are many and varied, you can also create and save […]

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

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