kremalicious

Beside a new version of Color Efex Pro for Capture NX, Nik announced a brand new plug-in for Photoshop and Aperture. Silver Efex Pro is a tool to create black & white images with the power and simplicity of the U-Point technology. You can easily fine tune portions of your black & white images. It’s also capable of emulating film grain and 18 different types of film while also providing 20 one-click preset styles. But Silver Efex Pro is also capable of color toning the image.

You can get a 15-day trial from Nik’s website. It can be purchased through Nik’s online store for US$199.95.

Discuss (0) | Digg This! | Save to Del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Float This!

With the release of Aperture 2.1 Apple introduced a plugin architecture for adding third party image adjustment and export plugins. Now the first third party image adjustment plugins for Aperture 2.1 have arrived. And they can definitely make you stop roundtripping your pictures to Photoshop and back. For now a total of 14 plugins from 9 companys were announced which are waiting to help you with your Aperture 2 workflow.
Read the rest of this entry »

Discuss (4) | Digg This! | Save to Del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Float This!

Today Nik Software announced the availability of it’s U-point-technology based editing plugin for Apple’s Aperture 2.1 called Viveza.

With Viveza photographers are able to select areas from their images and adjust them separately from the rest of the picture by defining so called Color Control Points.

A 15 day trial is available from the website of the plugin. The whole plugin will cost you US$ 249.

Nik Software Viveza Website

Now it should be just a matter of days or weeks before the other recently announced plugins will be available too.

Finally here’s a first test of the plugin from photographer Jim Crotty:
Testing Viveza and Your Opinion

Discuss (0) | Digg This! | Save to Del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Float This!