Advanced editing, simplified - Easily create the photos you've imagined with 6 award-winning plug-ins for Photoshop®, Lightroom®, or Aperture®.

Make precise edits quickly - Use U Point technology to selectively edit just the parts of your photos that need touching up, without losing time on complex masks and selections. 

Dfine 2

Dfine 2 gives you unprecedented control over exactly how much and where to apply noise reduction. This makes it ultra-easy to eliminate noise in your images while maintaining detail and sharpness, thus improving the quality of every digital photo you take. Dfine 2 is designed to prevent the loss of detail other noise reduction tools often introduce.

Automatic Camera Profiling - Dfine 2 contains a noise reduction engine that provides best-in-class noise reduction while retaining an incredible amount of detail. When first opened, Dfine analyzes your photo and creates a unique profile that ensures noise reduction is applied only to the noise elements of your photo, resulting in more details being retained.

Complete Control - Dfine 2 not only automatically adapts to your photos to create noise reduction results tailored to each photo, but it also enables you to control exactly what kind and how much noise reduction is applied. Adjust the amount of contrast and color noise reduction applied separately, while fine-tuning the results selectively.

U Point® Technology - Control points powered by U Point technology enable you to selectively remove noise from your photos all without complicated masks or selections. Add noise reduction only to the areas in your photo that need it, ensuring that you maximize detail throughout the image.

Viveza 2

Powered by Nik Software's patented U Point® technology, Viveza 2 enables photographers of any skill level to quickly enhance their images using innovative tools designed for speed and efficiency. From precise selective enhancements using U Point powered control points to adjustments that enhance the entire image, Viveza 2 helps you spend more time shooting photographs and will forever change the way you edit photos.

U Point® Technology, Amazingly Precise - The most unique and powerful image editing technology available today, U Point powered controls allow you to precisely control where enhancements are applied without the need for complicated selections or layer masks. Enhancements are automatically and naturally blended throughout your image for spectacular results.

Control Points - Easily control color, light, and structure with U Point powered control points. Easy-to-use sliders let you quickly adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, structure, shadows, red, green, blue, hue, and warmth, giving you ultimate control over your photo.

Global Image Adjustments - Use Viveza 2 to apply color, light, and structure enhancements to your entire photo with the ability to refine these global adjustments selectively using control points. Also includes levels & curves for even more control over contrast and tonality.

Structure Adjustment - Accentuate textures and details with the unique Structure slider. Structure enhances image components without creating unwanted artifacts or halos, and when applied selectively, enables you to draw attention to specific areas in your photos.

HDR Efex Pro 2 

Reveal the full potential of your photography - Experience all the power, control, and creative expression your camera has to offer with HDR Efex Pro 2. This powerful tool enables professional and amateur photographers to create exceptional natural and artistic images. Its unique combination of one-click presets, a complete range of controls, and precise selective fine-tuning using patented U Point® technology simplifies and speeds up the process of creating truly memorable high dynamic range images for discerning audiences. 

Creative Freedom - Discover the wide range of possibilities with your HDR images. Get the best HDR looks from naturalistic to artistic and everything in between with easy to use and powerful tools in HDR Efex Pro 2.

U Point® Technology - Enhance the tonality, contrast, and color selectively in your image, with access to the entire 32-bit per channel range of details found only in HDR images, all without complicated masks or selections. Bring back lost highlights, open up blocked up shadows, and fine tune tonality to achieve a perfectly natural and balanced image.

Intuitive Interface - Experience the ease and natural workflow of HDR Efex Pro 2. Enjoy enhancing or editing your images with a variety of controls at your fingertips quickly and efficiently.

High Performance - HDR Efex Pro 2 now takes full advantage of the latest GPU and CPU processors, enabling you to quickly achieve high quality results.

Silver Efex Pro 2

All-in-One Toolset - Darkroom-inspired tools provide the power to create incredible black-and-white images. From the most advanced algorithms tuned for superior black-and-white results, to the ability to emulate nearly 20 popular film types, to finishing adjustments like toners and borders, Silver Efex Pro 2 provides control over the entire process.

U Point® Technology - Patented U Point technology makes it possible to create amazingly precise selections without time consuming and difficult tools, such as selections and layer masks. By using control points, you have the ultimate level of control over the tonality, contrast, and detail of your images, producing results that meet your vision as a photographer.

Unique Algorithms - Achieve incredible results faster than ever with never-before-seen advancements in black and white controls such as Dynamic Brightness, Fine Structure, Soft Contrast, Amplify Whites, Amplify Blacks, and our legendary Grain Engine.

History Browser - Explore all of the features in Silver Efex Pro 2 with the freedom to try different looks, undo adjustments at any time, and compare different edited history states of your image.

Introducing Sharpener Pro 3

Sharpener Pro 3 provides professional power and control over the complete sharpening workflow, from RAW pre-sharpening and creative detail enhancements to superior output sharpening based on the output device.

Output Sharpener - Designed to sharpen based on proven loss of detail caused by different output methods and devices, the Output Sharpener filter provides the optimum controls for creating perfectly sharpened images for such devices as display, inkjet, continuous tone, half tone, and hybrid print devices.

Creative Sharpening Tools - Powerful new creative sharpening tools enable you to enhance subtle details and textures that are hidden within an image. When selectively applied using control points these tools enable you to draw attention to key areas within your images.

Selective Sharpening with U Point® Technology - Simply the most unique and powerful image editing technology available today, U Point powered controls allow you to precisely control sharpness and detail selectively within an image without the need for complicated selections or layer masks. Enhancements are automatically and naturally blended throughout your image for spectacular results.

RAW Presharpener - The updated RAW Presharpener feature retains and enhances sharp details within images without amplifying noise and artifacts. RAW Presharpener compensates for the potential loss of clarity and detail caused through digital capture or digital noise reduction techniques.

Color Efex Pro 4

The photographer's choice for photographic filters - Color Efex Pro 4 provides the most comprehensive set of enhancements for color correction, retouching, and creative effects. Quickly stylize your photographs, retouch portraits with ease, and extend your creativity with unmatched control and versatility. 

Powerful & Versatile - Color Efex Pro 4 is the perfect launch pad for your creativity. 55 filters and countless effects for color correction, retouching, and creative enhancements provide more ways to explore, create, and achieve your final vision.

U Point® Technology - Selectively apply or remove filter effects with the utmost precision, enabling you to tailor each filter's results to your particular image. Control points make the ability to stack filters in Color Efex Pro 4 even more powerful as each filter can be applied to a different part of the image, all in one step.

Visual Presets - Use the visual presets found in each of the 55 filters of Color Efex Pro 4 as a starting point for your photographic exploration. The presets provide a wide range of options to explore and offer inspiration for enhancements that can be applied to your photos.

Unlimited Creativity - Maximize your creativity by stacking multiple filters in the same editing session. Experiment with an endless number of variations and then save your favorite stack of filters as a recipe, enabling you to apply the same look to other images with a single click.

System Requirements & Compatibility

- Windows Vista®, Windows 7, Windows 8
- AMD® or Intel® processor
- 2GB of RAM (4 GB or more recommended)
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 through CC
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 through 12 (apart from HDR Efex Pro 2, which is not compatible with Photoshop Elements)
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 through 5
- 32-bit and 64-bit Compatible

GPU Compatibility: 

NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series, GeForce 9 Series, GeForce 100 Series, GeForce 200 Series, GeForce 300 Series, GeForce 400 Series, GeForce 500 Series, ATI Radeon HD2000 Series, Radeon HD3000 Series, Radeon HD4000 Series, Radeon HD5000 Series, Radeon HD6000 Series. 

* If no compatible card is available, GPU acceleration will be disabled and the CPU will be used. 

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