And, of course, you can adjust the strength of different filters, stack them and use control points for a huge amount of flexibility. Each filter has six modes you can use to change visual effects. These sliders allow the user more control over how control points interact with the color and brightness of pixels within a selected region, allowing for much more – or less – precision.Ĭolor Efex has more than 50 creative filters and 20 image recipes. Last year, DxO added Luminance and Chrominance Color Selectivity sliders to Viveza and Silver Efex, which are now incorporated into Color Efex and Analog Efex. Silver Efex Pro 2) and 'Open' any RGB type file, (not raws), then 'Save' the result.Control points utilize U-Point technology, which allows for highly-localized, customizable editing without creating masks manually – U-Point creates the masks for you. I use the Lr HDR anyway so that is not a problem for me (or delete the individual TIFFs after creating the HDR.).ģ) Not many seem to know that the Nik programs can be used independently of PS or Lr. The only difference is that Lr will create a TIFF for each file selected before it sends them to HDR-Efex to combine into the HDR. You need to know where these folders were placed when you add each program to the External Editor Presets.Ģ) I have also found that 'HDR Efex' will also work as an external editor preset (if it does not install in the Export Presets). I think I chose the Windows 'Programs' folders so I have this (in Windows). It is not hard to do, just tedious for each of the Nik programs.ġ) The 'Nik Collection' installer program basically extracts (unzips) the Nik programs, makes links for Ps & Lr, and saves them to folders of your choosing.

in the instructions at- Plug-ins do not appear in Lightroom after installing - Nik Collection Help

So- For Lightroom it will be necessary to manually create presets in the Additional External Editing panel of the Preferences dialog. I do not know why Lightroom is not shown.

It recognizes Photoshop so it will add a window of Nik links for Ps. I suggest- Continue with the Install procedure.

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