OK, the sky was totally blown washed out completely and nothing can fix that, not even Viveza. I would tone some of these down if I were going to create a larger image, or do a print from this. Again, let me point out that I over compensated on some of the items to show the amount of control that Viveza 1.0 gives to you in your images. I set it up as a Smart Object so anytime I can go back and re-edit it another feature that I like about this product. In the final image I show a side by side of the changes that I made. In this case I used that dot to bring out the red in the bricks that were lost to evening shadows. At the bottom is called the Loupe, and it is where you can see the difference between the original and the color point version. This is where I created the masking image above from. On the right side of the screen you see the list of control points and you can make changes there. In this case I had to enhance the greens and the brightness to bring out the trees, but in doing so really distorted the sign, so I had to have one to correct that I used the one on that sign to make it pop out more as well. Some of the color points where used to focus on certain qualities that needed to be enhanced, such as the trees, and others were used to negate the changes, such as the one on the sign that is in the middle of the trees. The left side contains the image where you place your color points. The image below shows the screen when you open the Viveza window. To make my points I did some over correcting to make sure that you could see the differences in a small 72 dpi web shot.
You have lots of washed out areas and lots of shadows. In the image above on the right, even though the highlighting goes to the peak of the building, the dot on the right side of the image the one on the sign, cancels out any affect that the active one may be showing.įor this review, I chose an image that was taken late in the day and in very mixed light. What is nice about the way that this works is areas can overlap, and you can counteract effects with multiple control points. They are, based on the first letter, brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, red, green, blue, and warmth. The rest of the lettered dots control what changes will happen within that circle. The white area is the selected objects most affected, the black objects are the not selected objects not affected on, and gray objects are partially affected. You can see it in the image on the right – the radius goes from the gray point to about the top of the building (about where the C shows on the vertical bar). The length of the horizontal bar that stretches out from that point sets the radius of the affected area. If you look at the image below, the main color point is located at the tip of the arrow. Instead of having to make a selection, mask it off, and then apply filters, levels, curve adjustments, or use color balance tools, you just drop a control point and it considers the relationship between color and light and makes the appropriate adjustments. So what is U Point Technology? A patented innovation in photo image processing and editing, it uses color control points to isolate an entire image or an image area for enhancement very quickly.
#Viveza nik software review mac os
System requirements for Viveza 1.0 are Windows 2000 or better, Mac OS 10.4.9, 10.5.2 or better, 256 MB RAM (512 MB Recommended), and Photoshop 7 through CS3, Photoshop Elements 2.0 through 6.0 on Windows, CS2-CS3 and Photoshop Elements 4 or greater on Mac, or any image editing software program that accepts Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins. It is technology that Nikon users have had available to them in Capture NX it was integrated into Nik's Color Efex 3.0, and now is a major part of Viveza 1.0. It is a plug-in that uses U Point Technology to allow you to manage color and light in an image without having to spend a lot of time working with masks or selections.
Viveza 1.0 is the newest product in Nik's growing collection of digital photographic filters and effects for Adobe Photoshop.
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