Follow along as Janice Wendt, Nik Software’s trainer to the trainers, teaches you how to quickly and easily enhance travel images with timesaving techniques using a variety of Nik Software tools using Photoshop. This webinar will feature a variety of travel images and teach you how to effectively enhance buildings, skies, landscapes and more. Click here to watch this webinar…

Image by © Tony Corbell The Dynamic Skin Softener filter softens details in an image based on color. When you select a particular color in the image, it softens similar colors throughout the image based on Color Reach and detail size without affecting other objects in the image. Let’s begin by taking a look at the filter controls, and how…

It is always a comfort that I know I have the power of Nik software in my back pocket, so to speak.  I travel to Africa several times a year leading safaris, but on this trip I stayed behind to do some of my own personal photography. I had just spent 8 great days in the Masai Mara and decided…

It is amazing how a couple of filters can add such a dramatic difference to an image. After a recent show at the Florida Birding and Photo Fest,  I took an opportunity to visit the Alligator Farm. I was focusing on one particular alligator that was resting among a congregation of very large alligators. I waited until he opened his eye…

By Joe Burbank of Orlando Sentinel Photography  What if you could take the entire, 47-square miles of Walt Disney World and shrink it down to the size of, say, a ping-pong table, and then photograph it up close, in miniature? That’s the effect I was looking for while working with a nifty digital photography editing app called Snapseed. Snapseed takes the…

Master Photographer, Carl Caylor, shares how he works an image to prepare it for printing. Carl was a custom printer before he was a photographer. Learn how he embraces old techniques from the darkroom and uses them more precisely in Photoshop. He will demonstrate actual work so you can see before and after images. Carl will also show how Nik…

Duplex is a stylistic filter within Color Efex Pro 4 that is used to select and add a color to your image. You can then adjust the blur, contrast, and saturation within the image to get a desired look. Essentially, Duplex creates a Duotone effect that enhances the mood and drama of an image. There are a number of controls…

It’s Filter Friday!  I enhanced this long exposure travel image with Color Efex Pro 4 to really intensify the colors, give the image depth, and make it pop. Here is the before image – a 4 1/2 minute exposure of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC: In Color Efex Pro 4 I added just a touch of Bleach Bypass to…

I love to shoot subjects that have lots of textures. I found this old tree that which covered with green moss that I thought would make a nice image. I added the pine cone to the scene to add a little extra interest. When I got home I pulled up the image on my computer, and I liked all the…

The Filter List is a great way to get some new ideas and inspiration for which filters to use for different types of photography. There are eight categories to choose from, including ‘All’ which displays all 55 filters, and ‘Favorites’ which displays your favorite filters. To set a filter as a favorite, click on the star next to the filter’s…