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How to use Viveza control points to transform your pictures

October 7, 2013 by Rod Lawton

09 Finishing touch 2

Viveza control points

I’ve noticed that the gold-painted vase has lost some of its richness and ‘sparkle’, so I’ve added a control point to the side in shadow and boosted both the saturation and the structure.

10 Finishing touch 3

Viveza control points

Finally, to boost the overall contrast and make the lighting more interesting, I’ve decided this picture needs a light on the background. It’s too late to add one physically, of course, but I can squeeze a control point in between two of the tulip leaves and boost the brightness, contrast, saturation and structure sliders to really brighten this area up.

Now you can see Viveza 2’s control points at work! All those I’ve added so far, particularly to the tulips, have the effect of protecting the areas underneath them. This really does look like a real background light, there’s no ‘spill’ on to the tulips and the vase, and the whole effect as worked far better than I expected.

11 The finished picture

Viveza control points

Well, I know it was a bit of a long haul, and it did take quite a few control points to make this photograph come out the way it has, but actually this didn’t take long at all. Once you get used to the way these control points work – and that you can use as many as you need – it’s really very easy. Once I’d decided on what I needed to do, I don’t think it took me more than five minutes to perfect this shot.

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Filed Under: TutorialsTagged With: DxO, Nik Collection

Rod Lawton has been a photography journalist for nearly 40 years, starting out in film but then migrating to digital. He has worked as a freelance journalist, technique editor (N-Photo), channel editor (TechRadar) and Group Reviews Editor on Digital Camera World. He is now working as an independent photography journalist. Life after Photoshop is a personal project started in 2013.

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