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Playing intuitively with images. For those who can't get enough of it. Creating glossy pictures that breathe like plastic. Photography looses all it authenticity. Are we still able to make an image first allright how it should need to be? Where are the monitoring tools to see what we are actually doing? Histograms should consist of lines instead of colored areas, because the colors they create have no relation with each other.

Red and green levels can just be reds and greens without any yellow, or vice versa. A bunch of panels, but empty. I shudder from U-points. This concept disrupts completely the continuity of the analog world. They permit easy results, but you probably pass by to make the basic adjustments first and finally mess up the whole picture.

We are flooded with deforming filters, but I get tired of it. I would be more impressed with clear controls that shows what actually happens. And don't forget the horror of ruining analog photos by dodging and burning them by hand.

Ansel Adams started with perfectly exposed negatives and then ruined them in the darkroom. A "real" artist will only print exactly what the original image looked like. PixieMeister - "Are we still able to make an image first allright how it should need to be? I saw your reaction only lately Yes there are rigid technically guide lines you can't get around. Such as the visible spectrum is continuous. This means that a camera can and will contain shift errors in hue, but you cannot twist the spectral order of it.

They must remain congruent, otherwise the color rendering will be no longer a natural representation of the original scene. In that view are U-point horrible! Except for you intentionally want to make a fantasy image of coarse. Same for luminance and saturation. And all these values need to stay in the resolution volume of the choosen bitdepth.

If not, colors will ceiling together and again show false values. Just re-installed for photoshop had an issue with PS that required a re-install. Granted, I've stopped using some of the plug-ins like HDR Efex in favor of other programs Photomattix but still find the free version from Google to be useful and I never personally had a crash as i know people did complain about that too with the free Google version.

It seems that it's still lacking some aspects, and considering I don't even use the Google version all that much not all the time probably just as well I didn't bother spending the money.

I'm sure for some people, it's good value the now-paid version, but based on some comments I see here, there's room for much improvement apparently. I'm using the free version on my iMac. But when trying the installer. Maybe later they'll have a better offer that will temp me. But for now, pass. I've toyed with the idea of upgrading but I don't really see the benefit for me.

Even though I paid a fortune for it, I still think I've got my money's worth. I know I could download the trial but I've done that more times than I care to already. DXO keeps trying to shock this formerly free zombie software back to life and charge for it. And it was serveral 's of DM each plugin, later, when Google bought the Nik Collection - much cheaper into contrast, all plugins for something like EUR only.

I haven't upgraded for a long time, but still using it. FYI, it was never being free - only when Google abandoned it, then it was being "free", and one could still DL the old 1. But software development comes at a price, programers, beta testers, marketing, etc. Those guys, always thinking it's for free Always the same sort of comment, when a new version comes out here I'd like to mention, when you get the Nik Collection v5, there's a free license for DxO PhotoLab v5 also being included.

Not the "Elite" version, but the essential release, well better than nothing, as Nik Collection plugin host. Just read that on the DxO Website here:. And if the 3 old plugins are now being fullscreen - which should've been updated into v4.

Nik Dfine, Viveza and Sharpener Pro have been the tools without fullscreen mode here. We're busting DXO's balls, because they haven't upgraded to 4K capability for how many years now? And they wanted full retail, too.

The rest of the tools are worthless, at least to me because I never use presets. And finally, mein herr, Reilly Diefenbach if you didn't know is an unseen character in the movie Fargo, a Cohen Bros homage to the movie Seven Days in May.

I use the older previously free Google version of the NIK plugins, which I had to pay for initially plugins almost on a daily basis. Mainly Viveza and the Color Efex Pro 4 plugins. They still work almost great with the current PS CC I'm using 2 x 27" 4K IPS monitors. There hasn't been word on it anywhere so far. In other words, no integration to speak of, and most of the time too cumbersome for me to use it.

Yes it does, haven't you read the post of me above? It does integrate into PhotoLab since ages, and PhotoLab v5 essential is included for free with the Nik Collection v5. See the post above, earlier from myself. The three most important components to me — Color Efex, Silver Efex and Viveza — now work on high dpi displays. Like FilmPack or Viewpoint. DxO makes some good software, but their sales strategy seems absolutely desperate….

David Mantripp, marc petzold — yes, that's what I meant when I wrote "as plug-ins", which I also did explain in detail. If version 5 integration in PhotoLab is the same as it has been "since ages", then it doesn't, and I don't need to bother.

I'll take the Topaz suite all day every day over Nik on functionality alone but they also all work great on 4k monitors and have for years. And it was, is a copykatz. Why would I care who copied who unless I worked for DxO? Which one any individual likes is subjective whether you chose to believe it or now. There is no such thing as best for everybody. Sigma's been on a roll with their mirrorless Art series lenses. Does the new 24mm F1. It brings a new, 25MP sensor and bit 4K capture at up to p.

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MatFoto I get your point but in contrary, they could have opted for a subscription fee like Adobe. They need to optimize it to be native though on M1, etc. Maybe it works fine for you, but not for me. David Mantripp I certainly agree that U-Points have their limitations, the first being that the approach is totally different to pretty much everybody else, so their effect is not that intuitive. Cariboou They are desperate, they need money Vieri Bottazzini The suite might have been "modernised", but beware: Nik Collection 4 BROKE Silver Efex's backward compatibility in that you are now not able to open anymore adjustments created with previous versions and saved as Smart Objects.

I have thousands of files with saved adjustments that I now cannot go back and adjust if needed. ShaiKhulud Well, Nik Collection was my first 'serious' color correction package now I work exclusively in CO22 , so it's nice to see that this package is not abandoned. ElFaro Image editing software in that doesn't work fully on a 4K monitor. I usually upgrade, not making the mistake again.

ShaiKhulud My guess it's some sort of legacy code that's too expensive to actually rewrite. I cannot be serious. NickyB66 No , M silicon is not supported. A big minus for me. Not optimized natively for M1. EC78 I've used Nik products since they first came out and upgraded appropriately.

Brev00 You may have to upgrade to elements PixelMeister Special effects, yes. Zaax And don't forget the horror of ruining analog photos by dodging and burning them by hand. Docno Please take the pills your doctor gave you…. PixelMeister I saw your reaction only lately PhotoFactor I'm happy using the free Google version.

Name That Camera For as long as it works. JamesClark I'm using the free version on my iMac. Captain Hook Same question here Does anyone know if this version is finally 4K aware? Captain Hook I use the older previously free Google version of the NIK plugins, which I had to pay for initially plugins almost on a daily basis. Hubertus Bigend David Mantripp, marc petzold — yes, that's what I meant when I wrote "as plug-ins", which I also did explain in detail.

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Dynamic range refers to the range of light between shadows to highlights. Images with a high dynamic range have detailed highlights and shadows. Our eyes have a stunning dynamic range which no camera can ever mimic. Cameras are limited in their dynamic range. This means that you cannot expose for the highlights and shadows at the same time. One of them will suffer.

Exposing for highlights will make your shadows too dark. And exposing for the shadows will make your highlights too bright. HDR photography uses technology to overcome this problem. Instead of taking one photo, with high-dynamic range, you take many pictures of the same scene at different exposures.

The images are then combined in post-processing to create a HDR photo. The final image highlights the best parts of each picture. You need to take at least three photos: One to expose for the shadows, one to expose for the highlights, and one neutral shot right in the middle.

Many cameras have a built-in bracketing tool. You can also manually adjust the exposure compensation dial will achieve similar results. You need three images when creating an HDR picture, but some photographers take five or seven exposures. In Lightroom, the tool is very basic, but it does combine exposures and do ghost removal.

Ghost removal aligns the images and reconciles any element that might have moved between the exposures. For instance, clouds or trees. This tool is more advanced than the HDR software in Lightroom. You can adjust edge glow, tone curve, and color. These change how Photoshop layers the exposures.

That is when presets can help you to enhance your image. Luminance HDR is an intuitive program with an easy-to-use interface. The most recent edition features many useful tools to bring out the best in your HDR photography. Luminance is available for Windows and Mac. Picturenaut 3 is another free HDR software tool. Picturenaut is by HDRLabs, a project established to create free software for various processes. Picturenaut is a very light software program. Touted as one of the best free HDR software solutions out there, Picturenaut is just as intuitive as Luminance but functions a little bit differently.

The tool also includes Alpha channel view, auto-cropping, and is one of the fastest at tone mapping. The open-source API is also publicly available for programmers interested in tweaking the program for even better results. This German program is ever-changing with new intelligence added every day.

Picturenaut 3 is available for Windows and Mac. There is a free basic version and a more advanced shareware version. This program is not as advanced as the two previously mentioned. The FDRTools tone mapping algorithm is very advanced in comparison to other programs. The user has full control over the merging process by looking at the tone mapped image. They can then edit the merging of source images in real-time. Users can choose to include or not include a particular source image or adjust the opacity of individual images.

Photomatix Pro is a powerful HDR software program. It is available both as a standalone program and as a plugin for Lightroom. The company is developing a plugin for Capture One.