There are three main sliders for brightness, contrast and structure. If you want to start from scratch, pattern 000 (neutral) has all the settings at zero so you can make changes as you wish. There are five tabs to choose from and once you've clicked on one of the effects and the main picture in the middle of the window has changed, you can then start to move sliders on the right to make your own adjustments. However, if you find yourself at a loss or if you want to make some tweaks, the right side of the window allows you to do just that. The great thing about these preset modes is that they're all so different that you will more than likely find an option in there to suit any kind of picture that you've taken. Alternatively, selecting the All option will display every filter available which is much easier to browse, albeit longer. On the left are the black and white filters which can be shown all at the same time or divided into three preset sections and one custom. The main window is split into three parts. It will already be converted to one of the black and white modes in Silver Efex. After launching, the picture you selected will appear in a separate window within the program.
#NIK SILVER EFEX PRO 2 PRO#
Once the picture is loaded, go to the Filter tab, select Nik software from the bottom and choose Silver Efex Pro from the list. For the purposes of this test, we used Adobe Photoshop CS4. To enable Silver Efex Pro 2, you have to load an image into your editing suite. But if it runs as quickly as other Nik software programs we've downloaded, you should be up and running in less than 10 minutes.
#NIK SILVER EFEX PRO 2 DOWNLOAD#
We were suffering from a bad broadband connection when we downloaded and installed Silver Efex Pro 2, so we can't give a fair appraisal of download times.
#NIK SILVER EFEX PRO 2 UPGRADE#
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 costs $199.95 / 199.95 Euros, or $99.95 / 99.95 Euros to upgrade from version one. All these are on top of the existing features found in the original version, which we reviewed back in 2008. Costing around 199 Euro, the main new features of version 2 include an intuitive history browser, structure and fine structure, soft contrast, GPU processing, dynamic brightness, neutral image borders, specially developed algorithms, black and white amplification and selective colour. Obviously my judgment has been that there are, but that judgment has been affected by both my desire to see DxO do reasonably well financially and my desire to see at least some continued development mainly (like you, I guess) to Silver Efex but also to some of the other tools.Silver Efex Pro from Nik software is a dedicated black and white plug-in for use in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture. Whether there are improvements between the last independent-Nik version and DxO Nik version 3 that are sufficiently worthy to you to warrant re-purchase is something only you can decide. I had the free Google version and I've bought DxO Nik versions 1 and 3 I did not buy DxO Nik version 2. * DxO Nik version 2 to DxO Nik version 3: tighter integration with certain other software, including some ability to work semi-non-destructively with Lightroom and Photoshop. * DxO Nik version 1 to DxO Nik version 2: additional presets and maybe expanded controls and * free Google version of Nik tools to DxO Nik version 1: bug fixes and updates to work with latest operating systems and editing software * last independent-Nik version to free Google version of Nik tools: no changes The current version is actually DxO Nik Silver Efex 3, not 2.