Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete

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-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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.