![]() ![]() Our judge, Keith Seidel is quite quick to pick up on noise in an image. However Define is an excellent noise reduction filter that will improve the image immensely. Whichever way you look at it, there is too much noise. Perhaps it was grain in the jpeg image that I started with. The preset silver efex filter above is quite grainy. With a bit of fiddling around this is what I came up with. ![]() It is possible to adjust the effect with a range of sliders. Once you open the program you are given a wide range of thumbnails to select from. This group of filters simulates the effect of a wide range of classic and vintage cameras, and Colour Efex mimics lens filters. It is also possible to selectively add colours to the image, like a selective tint. However I must warn that it is better to be restrained for the best results. Independently you can adjust these different selections to give a dramatic result. Effectively the control points allow you quite quickly to make colour selections – like the “colour range” selection tool in photoshop. You can also adjust the size of the field, so that I could darken the whole sky, or just one corner of it. However by also placing another point on the cloud I can darken the sky without darkening the clouds. ![]() For instance placing one point on the sky I can darken the whole sky. If you add more than one control point, they interact with each other. By clicking on the image you can add a control point. What is not available in photoshop is the NIK control point structure. Here I have done a global enhancement as I would do in photoshop. All of these features are available in photoshop. Vivezia offers the curves tool along with a range of colour, contrast, saturation and structure sliders. So here is my unaltered jpeg of point Lowly lighthouse. Follow the directions and you should find the NIK filters will magically appear on the photoshop filter menu. Photoshop is designed to accommodate third party filters. You can access the current version and Download here. I downloaded and installed the Nik collection into my copy of Photoshop a few years back. Around May 30, 2017, Google announced that they have no plans to update the Nik Collection or add new features over time. On March 24, 2016, Google announced that they would make the Nik Collection free. The collection was originally priced at $500, but Google dropped the price to $150 after it acquired the company. The subsequent Nik Collection is a set of image enhancement tools and photographic filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom and Apple’s Aperture. In 1999 Michael J Slater joined as CEO of the company and grew the small software firm into a software research and development company. These were essentially a combination of Photoshop actions and textures. The company focused on digital photography and graphic design developing Nils Efex! and Nils Type Efex!. In 1995 Nik Software (originally Nik Multimedia) was founded by Nils Kokemohr in Hamburg. Nik filters also includes powerful sharpening tools, HDR photomerging and noise reduction, as well as simulation of images taken with classic and vintage cameras. But that is not all that it has to offer. Ashley Hoff and Chris Schultz have often referred to “Silver Efex” as a powerful tool for digital monochrome conversion. IThis article as intended as an introduction to this interesting group of photoshop filters. ![]()
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