The U Point reminds me of what Lightroom should evolve to. Lightroom has TAT but it isn't localized like U Point. I hope the Lightroom team is paying attention.
The product looks very nice but I'm not sure that for me its worth $199.95.
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I had been thrilled with conversion to B&W by the Black & White Adjustment Layer in CS3. I was amazed by the subtle changes you could make, with lots of control over the tonal range. I would then optimize the image with curves, etc.
This past weekend I saw a demonstration of Nik Silver Efex by somebody from Nik Software, and I had to buy it pronto. The CS3 B&W adjustment layer's functionality is included but is only a small part of Silver Efex. It offers so much control and so much variety and the U point technology rocks.
Unfortunately for my wallet, I also saw a demo of Viveza, which solves a number of problems of selected edits in CS3, and it does for color and tone what Silver Efex does for B&W. I also have been using Noise Ninja, and the demo of Nik Dfine seemed so much more intuitive as well as much more flexible with less effort that I bought them along with Color Efex, which also works with the U point system.
I guess the new monitor gets put off for a while, but when I saw what these plugins are capable of, I had to get them. Every one of my frustrations with certain issues in CS3 were solved with Nik. By the way, I do not work for Nik.
If you download trial versions, make sure you get the user's manuals, also available for download.
If you have a relative who is either a full time student or a faculty member, Academic Superstore can save you quite a bundle of dollars. (I don't work for them, either.)