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User Guide
For Capture NX 2
© 2007 Catherine Hall
Chapter 1
Introduction
Introduction to Nik Software Color Efex Pro
™
3.0 for Capture NX 2 and the User Guide
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Color Efex Pro
™
.0 for Capture NX 2
User Guide
Versions
Nik Software offers two versions of Color Efex Pro 3.0 for
Capture NX 2. The Complete Edition contains 52 filters and
the Select Edition contains 35 filters.
What’s in the User Guide
In addition to providing installation instructions, the User Guide
shows you how to choose and control filters.
© 2008 Laurie Shupp
The typographical conventions used in this manual are:
Introduction
• Color Efex Pro 3.0 processes and user interface components
appear in Initial Caps, with first instances in
Bold Caps
.
(In context-appropriate cases, later instances also appear
in
Bold Caps
.)
Welcome to Nik Software Color Efex Pro™ 3.0 for Capture NX 2, the
most advanced set of filters for digital photography.
• Specific control inputs appear in
Bold Italic
. Control inputs
can be menu items, buttons, or sliders. Where first instances
coincide with specific control inputs, the term appears in
Bold Italic
.
Digital photographers have come to appreciate and take advantage
of unprecedented levels of control over their images. They enjoy
more options than ever to enhance, stylize, and otherwise improve
upon photographs. All of this additional control, however, has led
photographers to increasingly complicated choices of adjustments,
filters and blends, and away from the art of control.
Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are designed to make photographic
enhancements not only easier, but better. Based on continuous
feedback from professionals in Nik Software’s photographer
community, Color Efex Pro 3.0 is a suite of proven controls to
help photographers save time, get professional results and de-
complicate the art of enhancing their images.
© 2008 Luci Dumas
Chapter 2
New Filters in .0
New Filters Available in Color Efex Pro
™
3.0 for Capture NX 2
Chapter 2 : New Filters in .0
Color Efex Pro
™
.0 for Capture NX 2
User Guide
New Filters
Glamour Glow
– Gives portrait
photographers a powerful way to stylize
images with dreamy, soft effects.
Color Efex Pro 3.0 offers nine new filters to Color Efex Pro 2.0 users,
along with updates to existing filters.
Bleach Bypass
– Simulates the effect
of processing color film and bypassing the
bleach chemistry step. Use this filter for a
high-contrast, low-saturation effect used
by photographers and film makers alike.
Low Key
– Simulates the look of low-key
photography, characterized by uniformly
dark tones and low contrast.
High Key
– Simulates the look of
high-key photography, characterized by
uniformly light tones and low contrast.
Cross Balance
– Simulates the look of
shooting either tungsten-balanced film in
daylight or daylight-balanced film under
tungsten lights. Use this filter to create the
cool blue or warm orange effect often used
in stylizing images.
Polaroid Transfer
– Simulates the effect
of using Polaroid color peel-apart films and
transferring the nascent image to paper
before it has fully developed. The result is
a low-contrast, low-saturation version of
the image, with subtle shifts to the colors
throughout the image, reminiscent of this
popular photographic technique.
Film Effects
– Offers the look and feel
of over 30 different film types, realistically
simulating color sensitivity, contrast, and
grain for each film.
Tonal Contrast
– Allows powerful
control over the contrast only of highlights,
midtones or shadows, without affecting
the rest of the image. Use this filter for
highly targeted control of a particular
portion of the tonal range of the image.
Film Grain
– Adds realistic film grain to
any image, with control over the size and
placement throughout the image.
(Please see Chapter 8: Filter Descriptions.)
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