Key Features
The Nik Collection 3 includes eight plugins—Analog Efex Pro 2, Color Efex Pro 4, Dfine 2, HDR Efex Pro 2, Perspective Efex, Sharpener Pro 3 (for Raw and Output), Silver Efex Pro 2, and Viveza 2. These allow you to perform complex retouching without using complicated techniques. Most of these plugins except Perspective Efex use U Point technology, a proprietary technique originally developed by Nik Software founder Nils Kokemohr.
U Point enables you to click on an area of an image to set up a control point that can be adjusted in size so that changes can be made to pixels within that area that are similar to the pixels beneath the original control point. A circle of any size can be created around the control point to show the area where changes will be applied. You can control attributes such as Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Structure. Pixels inside the circle will only be altered if they closely match the colour channels, hue, saturation and brightness levels of the pixels under the control point. You can create as many control points as required for localised adjustments. The control points can be duplicated and moved around to precisely apply the same adjustments to similar areas in the image.
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