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How much of a change can depend on the part of the image and the particular control. If you move it even slightly, there can be a difference. The Surface area takes into account the images's color and tonality. The one for Viveza has the following controls. If you use a number of the Nik plug-ins, you are familiar with how they vary even though the they use the U Point® Technology. I'm going to go over some of these controls in detail. Viveza is extremely easy to use and, yet, you can get both dramatic or subtle effects with it.įirst, let's look at the interface and the right hand panel that controls it.Ī closer look at the right panel will show some of the details and options. This makes learning them a lot easier although the curve will depend on the program and not, necessarily, in what order you learn them. Nik plug-ins share a uniformity of interface and controls.

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By analyzing the color, tonality, detail, and location, the Color Control Point automatically determines where and how to apply certain effects, based on your needs.'

'The U Point technology powered Color Control Points let you identify and isolate objects within a photograph by placing a Color Control Point directly on the object or area to be affected. By adding the light to the ground and having it correspond to the sky above, I added a center of interest. Before I used Viveza, this was a throw-away image. To add a new sky is, also, almost impossible because of all the bare tree branches. If you look at the first image, it is dull and drab and the sky is practically useless. So, what does Viveza do? Viveza is a fast, easy to use and accurate plug-in for changing the light and color of an image. The positioning of some U Point® Technology Control Points changed this image. First we'll look at a before example and, then, an after one. In addition to being available for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or other programs that are compatible with Photoshop plug-in architecture, other versions will plug into Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture.I'm starting this review in a totally different way. Like the other Nik programs, you can choose to brush the resulting effect selectively onto your picture in Photoshop rather than apply it globally. Before Viveza, you had to be very skilled at Photoshop-type masking tools to achieve this, and to make it look natural. Then, you can select and alter only the purple flowers in that field. By putting the control point on her face, and sizing it to include her arms, too, you can then adjust the tones, brightness and vividness of her skin, while not making any changes to the field of flowers or, even, to the clothes she is wearing. For example, suppose you have a portrait of a child playing in a field of flowers.

Place the control point on a certain color, shrink or enlarge the area of the control point, and then use sliders to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, red, green or blue values of only that area.

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Like the same company's Silver Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro, Viveza uses Nik's U-Point technology Control Points. And the result blends in beautifully with the entire image.

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Nik Software's Viveza does away with all that with a surprisingly simple, yet very sophisticated interface, giving you full control over color and light within any portion of your picture, without affecting the rest. After you make your adjustments to the selected area, you then have to try (often vainly) to make the new edit look like it belongs with the rest of the picture. First, you have to carefully and expertly select the area with a mask. If you've ever tried to alter the color and light values of specific areas of a picture, you know it can be a time-consuming, frustrating, skill-intensive task.