While I think I could do almost everything that this plug in achieves in the other packages, the fact is that in this case the way the interface works encourages me to get better results. I’ve been using thins one quite a lot in the last few days, and I think it works extremely well.
#VIVEZA 2 APERTURE 3 PRO#
Here’s an example of an image worked up in Color Efex Pro 4… (although a single image is not very revealing – the point is you can produce an almost unlimited number of effects with this pluggin. I can imagine occasional use, but not extensive use of this one. I think this will be the place I come for inspiration with images that I am stuck on. If you did a lot of work with it I think you would get to know the various presets well enough to use them more deliberately, but I don’t see myself doing that. You can very easily browse through the dozens of effects until something sparks your imagination, and then refine the image further with the right column controls. Colour Efex Pro seems to work best when you have no idea of the outcome you want to achieve. In Photoshop (or Lightroom or Aperture) you tend to have an idea of what you want to achieve, even if you use a fair amount of experimentation as you work. However, it really is a different way of working. There’s nothing here that you can’t do in Photoshop, but there are a few effects that you can’t really do in Lightroom or Aperture. Each effect is quite customizable (in the right column), and you can apply multiple effects at once – until you ‘save’ you can tweak the controls to adjust the interaction of the different effects. This is a large collection of preset effects (left column). So I don’t see much need for this one either. However, the built in Noise Reduction in Lightroom or ACR is just as good, and again, as with Sharpener Pro 3, it is applied at a better stage in the workflow. Given that, if your image is very noisy in the first place, Photoshop or Lightroom’s noise reduction is going to be a smeared look anyway, so you could argue that Dfine works only on those image where it is going to be most useful, and is not useable on images that are so bad that the noise reduction would have visible artifacts anyway. This noise reduction plug in works very well on images that have a very low amount of noise, but is helpless when confronted with an image that has a lot of noise. The tools in Lightroom or ACR are better, and just as easy to use, and more importantly they come at the right stage in the workflow – on the RAW file rather than on a TIFF after the conversion. I don’t really see any use for this at all. This will often work out best since you can more easily apply the effects to selected regions using a Layer Mask. Of course, if you are using Lightroom or Aperture, but also have Photoshop, you could also choose to edit the effect in Photoshop, and then apply the filter there.
Nik gives you the option of brushing the effects in or out, but it would be easier to do this using a Layer Mask and Photoshop’s more sophisticated selection tools. When you have applied the effects they appear as a new layer. Photoshop: You can apply the Nik Collection effects from the filters menu.
If you want to change an adjustment you need to start again from scratch.
Although you can always return to the untouched original, you can’t just tweak a setting later. Nik will generate a separate TIFF image, which will appear next to the original file, and all your edits will be applied to this TIFF. Lightroom and Aperture: Right click on the thumbnail and choose ‘Edit in…’ or ‘Edit with Plug in…’ and then choose the relevant Nik pluggin. The important question is, if you already have Lightroom, Photoshop, or Aperture do you want these as well? If you don’t have one of the Adobe or Apple packages I’d recommend you spend your money on one of those rather than the Nik Collection, but assuming you already have that software, is it worth spending the money for these additional plug ins? Viveza 2 – for making selective adjustments.Silver Efex Pro 2 – For converting to Black and White.Color Efex Pro 4 – a preset based set of colour image editing tools.The upshot of this is that the price of the Nik Collection has been made a lot more affordable. Nik had been known for a suite of still image editing tools, although probably Google want the company for its mobile applications.
#VIVEZA 2 APERTURE 3 SOFTWARE#
There’s an upside and a downside here – obviously free is good, and makes getting the suite a no-brainer (especially if you are into black and white), but there will be no upgrades, so sooner or later the software will no longer work on a modern operating system. STOP PRESS: March 2016: Google has now made the Nik Collection completely free.
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