Software

I have to say that I really like the Nik Software products. Although the only thing at the time I was not to thrilled with is their filter set even though I owned there selective version 2 software and the problem was the GUI and there was no presets to see the effects of the filter set, this was the same for their version 3 and I was not going to update the filter set to this version.

Than I received an email from Nik about the new release of version 4, and they seemed to have made ...

Have you been thinking about purchasing a plug-in for Photoshop, Lightroom etc... and want to save some money on the software.

Well, I'm a fan of Nik Software and use their plugins in my work process. Now I purchased most of their software, and went through the manuals and played around a bit and figured it all out, but yesterday I got an email of Free Webinars that they were having Thursday Night on Viveza2 and the new release of Color Efex Pro4. So I booked both of these for the ...

I had a member on Forum that purchased Capture NX, but the problem is that he still has all the Actions and Plug-Ins that he wants to still use in Photoshop.
I'm also was in the same position with this problem really had a hard time at first even using Capture NX, but a buddy of mine had me over and should me how to take advantage of some of the features in the software

Let me started out with my basic work flow first.

Photo Mechanic to view and remove the images ...

I have been using version 1.xx for some time now, and moved over to NIK software and their sharpen software for the simple fact that it allows you to see the results with settings that you had made. I find that NIK sharpen does a good job, but just a tad over sharpens the images and you need to make a slight adjustment in the Opacity slider to tone it down a bit.

Even though I moved to another piece of software to sharpen images, in the back of my mind I was thinking when are they ...

Since the news came out about this software I was very interested in it for the reason that I could do all my processing in photoshop now, rather than have a separate program to create the HDR file and than launch photoshop to do the fine tuning. Once that the demo version had been released by NIK I decided to try it out and see if this was what I wanted and if it performed as mentioned with good results.

I ran into issues with the demo right off the bat and could not get the demo ...