Introducing NCPW’s newest partner – Nik Software

Nik Software has some of the hottest plug-ins for Lightroom, Photoshop and Aperture.  Amateurs and professionals alike turn to Nik for their digital image processing needs.  Whatever solution you need, Nik has it. The Nik website is extremely helpful and Nik even provides daily instructional webinars and tutorials for each of the products they produce.  We at NCPW are very excited to add such a fine company to our list of partners and we encourage you to take a look at their line up of phenomenal products below.  For more information go to http://www.niksoftware.com/.  

Define 2.0 – Noise Reduction Software

 Define 2.0 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.  Define 2.0 is designed to prevent the loss of detail other noise reduction tools often introduce. 

Viveza 2 -- The most powerful tool to selectively control color and light in your photographs.

Viveza 2 brings a whole new time-saving dimension to your image editing. No complicated selections or layer masks to wear you down. Point, click, slide and voilá - your image looks great. Now featuring global adjustments, fine-detail structure control, and shadow recovery. Viveza 2 will forever change the way you edit images. For Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom®, and Apple® Aperture®

Color Efex Pro™ 3.0

 These filters are the leading photographic filters for digital photography. The award-winning Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are widely used by many of today's professional photographers around the world to save time and get professional level results. Updates to old favorites such as Classical Soft Focus, Darken/Lighten Center, and Vignette filters are joined by exciting new filters Film Effects, Glamour Glow, High Key, Tonal Contrast, Bleach Bypass, and more.  With 52 filters and over 250 effects found in Color Efex Pro 3.0, you can perform high quality retouching, color correction, and endless creative enhancements to your photographs.

Silver Efex Pro -- Complete Control for Professional Quality
Black & White

Silver Efex Pro from Nik Software is the most powerful tool for creating professional quality black and white images from your photographs. For the first time, all the advanced power and control required for professional results have been brought together in one convenient tool.

Silver Efex Pro includes advanced imaging algorithms to protect against unwanted artifacts, a comprehensive collection of emulated black and white film types, a variable toning selector for adding traditional toning techniques, over 20 one-click preset styles, and a state-of-the-art grain reproduction engine that help produce the highest quality black and white images possible from your color images while providing more freedom to experiment.

Sharpener Pro 3.0 Professional Image Sharpening Every Time

Sharpener Pro 3.0 is the most advanced and powerful sharpening solution eliminating the guesswork typically required for achieving superior and consistent results.

New adaptive sharpening algorithms and award-winning U Point® technology for selective sharpening ensure desired sharpness or creative softening of details are easily accomplished. The Sharpening Soft Proof that lets you accurately inspect results before printing saving money in costly test prints, improved handling of new output devices, and new output presets provide repeatable, professional results. Sharpener Pro 3.0 is the only tool that provides controls for both output and creative detail sharpening of different objects quickly and easily without the need to make different adjustment layers for each object or area.