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Silver Efex Pro | 
 enlarge | From: Nik Software
Category: Software
List Price: $199.95
Buy New: $169.95
You Save: $30.00 (15%)
New (3) from $169.95
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1354
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.2 x 2.1
MPN: 5100
Model: nik-5100
UPC: 899164001837
EAN: 0899164001837
ASIN: B001DEV95W
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Black & White conversion filter | | • | Adobe Photoshop Plug-in | | • | State-of-the-Art Grain Engine | | • | Film Emulation | | • | Smart Filter Compatibility |
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Product Description
Silver Efex Pro Silver Efex Pro provides photo enthusiasts and professional photographers alike with complete power and control to create professional quality black and white images in one convenient tool. Incredible Speed and Results with U Point Technology U Point powered Control Points enable you to selectively control the tonality and contrast of an image without the need for any complicated selections or layer masks. Gain a new level of precision and efficiency in your photographic image editing. By placing acontrol point on any part of the image you wish to alter, and moving a few simple sliders, you can achieve incredible results in a fraction of the time required by other tools. State-of-the-Art Grain Engine Silver Efex Pro features a revolutionary new grain engine that accurately recreates your digital photographs to look like a traditional black and white image. In contrast to other methods which merely overlay a grain pattern over your image, Silver Efex Pro recreates your image out of grain mimicking the traditional silver halide process. Film Emulation Silver Efex Pro emulates 18 of the most popular black and white film types, including the grain, color sensitivity, and tone curve for each. Advanced Stylizing Stylize your images with popular tints and toners, add a classic vignette, and burn in the edges with natural darkroom-inspired tools. A
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| Customer Reviews:
Silver Efex Pro December 27, 2008
Wilfredo Benitez (California, U.S.A.)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent product. It makes B&W post-processing fast and efficient. It is a very good companion to PSCS3.
Awesome black and white plug-in for PS and Aperture August 11, 2008
J. Austin
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Even though this product is quite pricey, if you love black and white, it is definitely worth it. Gives you amazing control over converting color images to b&w, using predefined templates, additional templates from their website, and also custom setting you can make, and save. Absolutely fantastic. I am running it on an intel Mac Pro w/ 8 Gig of Ram. It is very fast when launched from w/in photoshop. I only gave it 4 stars out of 5 because it is incredibly slow working w/ large 12 and 14 bit raw files when launched from Apple Aperture (but fine from w/in photoshop). A number of people on the web have complained about this and Nik has yet to acknowledge this as a problem. I even offered to help them trouble shoot it to find out where the memory/performance issue was coming from and they didn't respond to my offer. One solution seems to be to launch the plug-in in 8 bit photoshop mode instead of 16 bit but that is just a work around, not a real solution as other Nik software works fine w/ photoshop in 16 bit mode. Overall a great product, I highly recommend you download the 14 day demo and give it a try, and then buy it if you like it as much as I did. The Aperture slow performance was almost a deal-breaker for me but I purchased it anyway knowing that Nik would eventually have to fix that one problem area.
UPDATE: 5 stars. Nik has released version 1.001 which addresses the Aperture slowness problem. Nice and fast now. Highly recommended.
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