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Nik Software Color Efex Pro™ 3.0 filters are the leading photographic filters for digital photography. The award-winning Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are widely used by many of today's professional photographers around the world to save time and get professional level results. Whether you choose the Complete Edition, Select Edition, or Standard Edition, you’ll get traditional and stylizing filters that offer virtually endless possibilities to enhance and transform images quickly and easily.
Patented U Point® technology provides the ultimate controlto selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections. Control color, light and tonality in your images and create unique enhancements with professional results. With 52 filters and over 250 effects found in Color Efex Pro 3.0, you can perform high quality retouching, color correction, and endless creative enhancements to your photographs.
Updates to old favorites such as Classical Soft Focus, Darken/Lighten Center, and Vignette filters are joined by exciting new filters Film Effects, Glamour Glow, High Key, Tonal Contrast, Bleach Bypass, and more. See the full filter list with sample images here.
The result is nothing less than the most complete, most useful collection of photographic filters you can add to your toolkit.
Color Efex Pro 3.0
Color Efex Pro 3.0 has been significantly updated to provide photo enthusiasts and professional photographers alike with the most powerful yet easy to use set of photographic filters ever created. Digital SLR owners will revel in the wide range of quick and easy fixes to dramatically improve their photos with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Professional wedding, nature, commercial, and portrait photographers will appreciate the speed of workflow and advanced features designed to support uniquely creative styles and deliver class-leading power.
U Point® Technology
U Point-powered Control Points make it easy to selectively add, modify, and remove a filter’s effect. Award-winning U Point technology gives you ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections.
New Filters
The new filters in Color Efex Pro 3.0 range from creative enhancements and special effects to re-touching tools and over 30 conventional film emulation filter effects. New filters include Bleach Bypass, Cross Balance, Film Effects, Film Grain, Glamour Glow, High Key, Low Key, Polaroid Transfer, and Tonal Enhancer. Previously available filters have also been updated to provide even more options. Click here to see a complete list of filters, descriptions and before/after samples.
New Interface
The new resizable interface lets you easily accommodate large monitor configurations, preview before and after results, and quickly access the entire range of unique tools to match your workflow.
Powerful Selective Tool (Adobe® Photoshop® only)
Unique among photographic filter software on the market today, the Color Efex Pro 3.0 Selective Tool allows you to quickly and easily brush any filter effect into your image. Layers and masks are created automatically, so you are free to create and experiment unfettered.
Smart Filter Compatibility (Adobe Photoshop only)
Color Efex Pro 3.0 is Smart Filter compatible which allows you to go back and "fine tune" images even after effects have been applied
Multi-image Support (Lightroom® & Aperture™ only)
Color Efex Pro 3.0 is compatible with Lightroom & Aperture’s ability to work on multiple images at once. When more than one image is opened, "Previous" and "Next" buttons appear that allow photographers to easily copy and paste settings between images to maintain consistency.
Color Efex Pro 3.0 Interface
(Capture NX 2 from Nikon Corporation)
Color Efex Pro 3.0 has been integrated into Nikon’s flagship image editing application Capture NX 2. For example, where U Point® technology has been incorporated into the plug-in for Photoshop and Aperture (to allow precise selective control over filter enhancements), Capture NX 2 already has the ability to selectively apply enhancements via U Point powered selection control points.
This makes for a more seamless experience, and fits well with the photography-centric feature set and non-destructive workflow of Capture NX 2. This tight integration dramatically simplifies the art of enhancing images and offers photographers a complete photo editing solution.
System Requirements:
Windows
• Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit compatible)
• AMD or Intel processor
• 1GB RAM (2GB or more Recommended)
• Adobe Photoshop® CS2 through CS5 32-bit (64-bit compatibility, please click here), Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 through 8*
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® 2.3 or later**
• Capture NX 2 from Nikon Corporation (excludes Color Efex Pro 3.0 Standard Edition)
Macintosh
• Mac OS 10.4 and later
• PowerPC or Intel processor
• 1 GB RAM (2GB or more Recommended)
• Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 through CS5 in 32-bit (for 64-bit compatibility, please click here), Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and 8*
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 or later**
• Apple® Aperture™ 2.1.x and Aperture 3 in 32-bit (for 64-bit compatibility, please click here)
• Capture NX 2 from Nikon Corporation (excludes Color Efex Pro 3.0 Standard Edition)
* Nik Software product filters are developed to integrate seamlessly into many popular image editing applications that support the Adobe plug-in architecture and there are numerous software applications that accept Adobe plug-in compatible filters. Please consult your image editing application’s documentation for compatibility and installation instructions for 3rd-party plug-ins.
** Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 compatible with Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Edition only.
