Overview
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Create striking images using the Nik Collection by DxO. Learn how to leverage each of the seven plugins in the collection to add creative effects to your photos.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Nik overview
- Workflow from Lightroom
- Workflow from Photoshop
- Workflow from Photoshop Elements
- Working as a standalone application
- General interface overview
- Understanding presets
- Loupe and histogram displays
- Zooming and panning
- Before and after views
- Undo and reset
- History
- Introduction to control points
- Finalizing your adjustment
- Overall workflow
- Adding multiple filters
- Changing filter order
- Saving recipes
- Refining or removing a filter
- Using control points
- Applying global adjustments
- Targeted adjustments with control points
- Starting with a preset
- Applying global adjustments
- Selective adjustments
- Selectively restoring color
- Adding color filters
- Applying film effects
- Color toning effects
- Adding a vignette
- Burning the edges
- Adding a border effect
- Camera categories and presets
- Creating a custom tool combination
- Basic adjustments
- Applying lens distortion
- Adding bokeh effects
- Zoom and rotate blurs
- Adding motion blur
- Double exposure
- Light leak effect
- Adding dirt and scratches
- Photo plate effects
- Lens vignette effect
- Applying a film type
- Multilens effects
- Frame options
- Levels and curves adjustments
- Assembling the initial HDR image
- Applying a preset
- Tone compression settings
- Adjusting overall tonality
- Color adjustments
- Selective adjustments
- Finishing adjustments
- Saving the final image
- Tone mapping a single image
- Measuring noise
- Reducing noise
- Using control points
- Noise reduction by color range
- Additional refinements
- Raw presharpening
- Applying output sharpening
- Control points for sharpening
