This filter is meant to simulate standard bi-color filters that would normally be affixed to your camera lens. I encourage you to play around with the control points, and you’ll quickly see how they can help you turn your image into the picture you initially envisioned. Combining these points with the filters gives you almost unlimited control of how the filters will effect your final photograph.
Each point can be individually controlled to modify range of effect and opacity. This feature is invaluable, and allows you to add positive or negative points anywhere in the image, adding or reducing the effect of the filter in targeted areas. ForewordĪs with all of the tools within this suite, the filters described below include a Control Points feature within the panel of individual filter controls. Let’s go through five of the most useful and effective tools available in this package, and see how they can boost the appearance and effectiveness of your images. Although you can sort the list of effects by photo type (landscape, portrait, etc.), there is a lot to explore. The current version, Color Efex Pro 4, is a complete package in itself, featuring a variety of effects of the highest quality.
The highlight of this set has always been the all-around workhorse, Color Efex Pro. This is all speculation of course, and regardless of what the future holds for the Nik collection, it is a highly useful set of tools that can benefit any photographer, of any skill level. This move has been applauded by many, yet accompanied by caution with by some, since a few analysts see this as the beginning of the end for the software suite. The Google Nik collection (now owned by DxO) has been considered one of the top photographic effect plugin suites for a few years now, and it just got better in a big way – as of March 24th, 2016, it’s available free of charge.
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