TAKE YOUR NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY BEYOND THE ORDINARY WITH COLOR EFEX PRO Our professional photography educators include DxO Ambassador Fabio Antenore, popular YouTube content creator PhotoJoseph, and instructor at the Rochester Institute of Technology Dan Hughes. These webinars are perfect for beginners as well as seasoned photographers and offer step-by-step workflows and tips on everything from Landscape and Nature Photography to how to fix and solve common issues after the photo is taken. If you want to sign up for a free DXO webinar see details below.ĭxO Announces Free Webinar Series for April 2020 to Watch in the Comfort of Home To register, select from one or more of the webinars and join in at the day and time that is displayed. Unfortunately, the software doesn’t allow you to apply more than once recipe to an image so it requires going back to Lightroom after the first recipe is applied and then back into Color Efex a second time to add the next recipe again. On some images I may repeat the round-trip to Color Efex two or even three times. The use of sunlight filter in conjunction with the others allowed me to go from a RAW file, first image to Color Efex using my recipe and back into Lightroom for final tweaks very quickly. So for example the image of the woodlands was edited within a few minutes because I had created a “woodland recipe” from previous images. Once you have created a combination of filters with the sliders set to give you a style/look you can save those as a recipe for future use and to speed up the editing time next time round. Move the sliders back and forth until you feel the balance and impact you want is right. Toggle the filter on and off to see the impact of it by toggling the tick box top right of the filter box in the right panel. You can rearrange the order of the filters by dragging and dropping them in the list on the right panel. If you want to add an additional filter on top of the existing filter, click on the + Add Filter. If you don’t want that filter then select an alternative one from the list from the left panel. When you open your image in Color Efex it will load up the last filter used. I published a list of filter definitions yesterday so take some time to get to know them and mark them as a favourite (click the star next to the filter in the list to turn it yellow) That will reduce the amount of scrolling required. Today, I will focus my tips on Filters and their use and creating Recipes for future use. None of these are show-stoppers but you take a little longer to get used to the differences.Ĭolor Efex Pro 4 is probably the best of the bunch and Silver Efex for B&W conversion from a colour RAW image. Color Efex has a list of filters and Silver Efex doesn’t. (A hang-over from the original NIK legacy product) So a preset in Silver Efex is called a Recipe in Color Efex. The first thing that a new user has to learn is that Color Efex, Silver Efex, Viveza and so on all work slightly differently and use different terms for the same thing in different modules. That said, it is the best option on the market for those who are not photoshop guru’s and want an effective and quick way to add professional touches to their images. I am sure they have a roadmap but I’ve never seen it (its certainly not a motorway) and I know plenty of you who haven’t upgraded to the paid latest version because of the lack of new features and improvements. There are frustrating elements with it, some have been fixed by DXO since they rescued it from Google a couple of years ago but the list of developments and new features seems to never get any traction and progress despite an active user forum. I’ve been a user and educator of NIK since year dot and still find it meets all my needs eight-ten years on. In the previous Tip of the Day posts on Editing, I shared what software I use and how the DXO Nik Collection has been a goto plug-in for Lightroom and Photoshop in my workflow. Editing Software – Advanced Editing with NIK Color Efex Pro 4 - Using Filters
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