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Nik Software User Guide

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Chapter 1

Introduction

Introduction to Nik Software Color Efex Pro™ 3.0 and the User Guide

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User Guide

Versions
Nik Software offers three versions of Color Efex Pro 3.0, with the same functions and interface in all versions. The Complete Edition contains 52 filters,the Select Edition contains 35 filters, and the Standard Edition contains 15 filters.

What’s in the User Guide
In addition to providing installation instructions, the User Guide shows you how to choose, control, and selectively apply filters, both with U Point-powered Control Points and the updated Selective Tool. The User Guide also points out differences between Color Efex Pro 3.0 and ColorEfex Pro 2.0. The typographical conventions used in this manual are: • Color Efex Pro 3.0 processes and user interface components appear in Initial Caps, with first instances in Bold Caps. (In context-appropriate cases, later instances also appear in Bold Caps.) • Specific control inputs appear in Bold Italic. Control inputs can be menu items, buttons, or sliders. Where first instances coincidewith specific control inputs, the term appears in Bold Italic.

Introduction
Welcome to Nik Software Color Efex Pro™ 3.0, the most advanced set of filters for digital photography. Digital photographers have come to appreciate and take advantage of unprecedented levels of control over their images. They enjoy more options than ever to enhance, stylize, and otherwise improve upon photographs. Allof this additional control, however, has led photographers to increasingly complicated choices of adjustments, filters and blends, and away from the art of control. Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are designed to make photographic enhancements not only easier, but better. Based on continuous feedback from professionals in Nik Software’s photographer community, Color Efex Pro 3.0 is a suite of provencontrols to help photographers save time, get professional results and decomplicate the art of enhancing their images.



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Chapter 2

What’s New in .0

New Features and Functionality in Color Efex Pro™ 3.0

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major controls close together for greater efficiency, letting you achieve excellent results inless time. (Please see Chapter 5: Color Efex Pro 3.0 Interface.)

U Point-powered Control Points
U Point technology lets photographers achieve exactly what they envision in an easy, fast, intuitive manner. U Point-powered Control Points in Color Efex Pro 3.0 let you easily and selectively control where each filter is applied to the images, without the use of complicated selections or masks.What’s New in .0
Color Efex Pro™ 3.0 offers many enhancements and improvements over Color Efex Pro 2.0, in four general categories: • Interface • U Point®-powered Control Points • Selective Tool Interaction • New Filters

Additionally, some new filters in Color Efex Pro 3.0 provide unique functionality based entirely on U Point. (Please see Control Points in Chapter 5.)

Selective ToolInteraction
Originally, the Selective Tool was used to specify when to apply a Color Efex Pro 2.0 filter selectively to an image. As the popularity of Color Efex Pro 2.0 grew, photographers discovered that the Selective Tool offered more convenient access to filters than the Filters menu. Color Efex Pro 3.0 makes this access more convenient by giving you the choice of selectively applying the filterin the Filter Interface. This lets you launch the Color Efex Pro 3.0 interface from either the Selective Tool or the Filters menu. (Please see Interaction with Color Efex Pro 3.0 in Chapter 6.)

Interface
Color Efex Pro 2.0 users will notice the extensively reworked interface in version 3.0, the result of both deep study into the look and feel that professional photographers expect in modern...