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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Andrew W on December 15, 2006, 05:55:28 pm

Title: Nik Filter Plugins
Post by: Andrew W on December 15, 2006, 05:55:28 pm

How useful are these plugin filters. I have seen some of the effects in books and they look pretty interesting for creative work.

Anyone had any success?

Title: Nik Filter Plugins
Post by: Carl Harsch on December 15, 2006, 09:38:18 pm

They're okay, but nothing that you can't live without or do other ways.  I do like that you can apply them selectively rather than globaly, you can use them in layers and use a mask too.

A lot of the filters I never use, but there are several that I like such as soft gold reflector and sunshine.

They're a quick way to achieve some effects.

Title: Nik Filter Plugins
Post by: Schewe on December 16, 2006, 12:40:32 pm

You might want to read Michael's Three Must-Have Photoshop Plug-ins (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/software/must-have.shtml) article....

Title: Nik Filter Plugins
Post by: Arizona on December 17, 2006, 06:49:33 pm

There are a few very good filters in the complete set. The sliders and advanced feature to control highlights and shadows in many of the filters are super. I have about a dozen in there that I would not want to do without. You can paint on the effects via automated layers to selectively work with an image and really speed things up.

Check out the reviews on the Nik site and look at more reviews like This One (http://www.twistedtreephoto.com/nik%20color%20efect%20review%201.html)

You can find other reviews and info. I like them. Darken/Lighten Center, Graduated Neutral Density filter, Pro Contrast, Sunshine, Skylight, Paper Tones, the B&W converters, Midnight, Monday Morning, White Neutralizer, Soft Gold Reflector and many more I am not thinking about right now are useful either often or at one time or another.

I don't like the small previews but I do like man of the features.