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Nik Silver Efex Pro 2: £174.99

System requirements:

• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Mac OS X 10.5
• Mac OS X 10.6
• 2048MB RAM

• Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 through CS5
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 through 9
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.6 through 3.0 or later
• Apple® Aperture® 2.1.4 through 3.0 or later
• 32-bit and 64-bit compatible

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Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

The leading black and white imaging software.

Whether you are a professional or a hobbyist yearning for those days in the darkroom, Silver Efex Pro 2 gives you all the power and control you need to create high quality black and white images. In the past, black and white tools often meant compromising on the quality of the conversion or required a complex and lengthy multi-step process that didn't ensure predictable results. We set out to create a single workflow solution that provides everything you need for the highest quality results.

Great beginnings
Start with dozens of visual presets as starting points. If you like what you see, you're done. If you want to go further, use an extensive set of global controls such as brightness, contrast, saturation, structure, film types, toning, and much more to craft your image.

Dynamic Brigthness
Dynamic Brightness ensures that different areas of your image receive different brightening adjustments, based on tonal values of each area. By moving one slider, dark areas get brighter all without affecting lighter objects in your image and vice-versa. Dynamic Brightness even adjusts brightness independently for each dark area by easily applying adjustments precisely to the level desired. You save time and produce superior results because Silver Efex Pro 2 simply works smarter.

Specially Developed Algorithms
The imaging science and technology behind Silver Efex Pro 2 has been developed so that each part works intelligently together with others for the best results possible. Rather than algorithms working only in isolation, each algorithm intelligently changes contrast relationships between colors and other related algorithms as you adjust them.

Revolutionary U Point Technology
For photographers, one of the most difficult aspects of image enhancement has been the ability to selectively edit areas of an image without affecting other areas.It's often easy to look at an image and determine specific things you want to fix, but frustrating to actually fix them.

In the darkroom, dodging and burning were the most commonly used techniques to selectively adjust the tonality of objects but were inherently imprecise. U Point technology lets you select an area of an image with one click, identifying it with a "control point" and then make changes using sliders connected directly to the control point. This technology makes Silver Efex Pro 2 the only black and white application where precise selective editing is possible. Selective editing is especially critical in black and white photography where you want to ensure that tonality and contrast in the image is exactly what you want.