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#HDR EFEX PRO IN STANDALONE MODE UPDATE#
The update to the Selective Tool is by itself worth the price of admission. DxO said the Message Center will provide product news, special offers and events while promoting educational content like webinars and tutorials, collecting customer feedback through DxO surveys, and displaying news about the photography industry through links to DxO's social networks. It wasn't active for us but DxO has included the ability for the tool to phone home for information or help. To add a recent filter or recipe to the tool, you just have to mark it as favorite in the Nik tool by clicking on the star icon below the effect. When the process has finished, the image is displayed with the edit layer visible. With the option set to apply the effect in Photoshop, a small window with a progress bar is discretely displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen showing you what's going on behind the scene as the image data is manipulated. It remembers the last edit you performed with each tool and presents it on a button, so you just have to click the button to either apply the affect directly in Photoshop or tell the Nik tool to apply the effect for further editing in the Nik tool. But it does more that collapse or load a Nik tool. Expanded showing favorites and help.īut you can also collapse it (-) into the corner of your screen where it takes up even less space. It's frankly just delightful to work with the new Selective Tool. Sharpener Pro suffers from the same competition. It isn't so much its power but the use of a single point to apply its adjustments.ĭfine is no slouch either but noise reduction is typically handled within an image editing software's basic tools. Viveza has always been an acquired taste, a bit too complex for most people. And we expect Perspective Efex to make quite an impression. Silver Efex Pro may be the most popular but both Analog Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro can manipulate color images just as much. Viveza: Color control with advanced functions to change contrast and saturation emanating from a point in the image.Silver Efex Pro: Monochrome conversions of digital color images.Sharpener Pro: Intelligent image sharpening with two stages for Raw files.Perspective Efex: Geometric image distortion correction.HDR Efex Pro: High dynamic range image processing.Color Efex Pro: 55 creative filters and 20 image recipes.Analog Efex Pro: Film-era camera, lens and emulsion simulations.While we're focusing on the new tools in this review, we'll be using all of the tools in the suite to edit the images in some of our feature stories this month. The Nik Collection, which runs on macOS and Windows, is a suite of tools that can be run standalone or as a plug-in to Adobe's products or DxO PhotoLab. There is also an uninstaller, so don't lose your disk image. We installed it several times, in fact, changing the location of the tools.
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Windows 7 (64 bits) with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1 (64 bits), or Windows 10 (64 bits and still supported by Microsoft).Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 or higher.Nik Collection 3 ran fine on our 2010 MacBook Pro with 8-GB RAM and plenty of room on our SSD.

System requirements don't seem to have changed.
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We've been reporting on Nik Software since the release of Nik Sharpener, which added artificial intelligence to unsharp masking in November 2000. The Web review appeared sometime after our November 2000 newsletter review.
