Experience award-winning live training in November from the Education Team at Nik Software and Pro Photographers in the industry. Learn and get inspiration from Tim Grey, Kathleen Clemons, and Deborah Sandidge. Join Nik’s Education Team with Dan Hughes, Laurie Rubin and Janice Wendt! Advanced Portrait Retouching with Janice Wendt Thursday, November 08, 2012 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST Click…

Take a journey through the Nik Software plug-ins as Professional Photographer Cris Duncan demonstrates solutions for a variety of photographic disciplines. Designed for those photographers who shoot many different types of subject matter and need effective workflow solutions to enhance their images. Examples to be covered are commercial, portrait, wedding photography and more. (http://www.cjduncan.com/)   Click here to watch this…

  A polarizing filter in photography is traditionally used to filter skylight with a certain direction of polarization. While there is a greater scientific dynamic at work, photographers employ the filter to reduce reflections on surfaces and to darken the sky. It also helps to increase contrast throughout the image, while saturating certain colors. It is a very useful filter…

When photographing landscapes, one of the most challenging issues we have to deal with is shooting in non-ideal situations such as harsh midday sunlight, when the shadows are very dark and the highlights blow out all of the details.   One way to deal with this challenge is to bracket and fire off several shots at different exposure values, then…

This video will demonstrate how this method is most effective when affecting large objects or if you want to uniformly reduce noise based on color.   Click here to view this video  

Nik’s online Trainer Dan Hughes, will demonstrate how many architectural photographers have discovered the importance of high quality image editing and the timesaving capabilities of working with Nik Software tools. Dan will go through a variety of architectural work from top pros to see how to enhance buildings, interiors, skies, grounds and more using a variety of Nik Software tools….

A fun filter that enhances color within an image while also letting you create more stylized colors, is Photo Stylizer in Color Efex Pro 4. The power in this filter is that you can create traditional enhancements for existing colors, or more exciting and completely different colors that can change the look and feel of your image. The few filter…

“The best camera is the one you have with you,” said photographer Chase Jarvis. Having good software to help enhance and polish those images is also very important. Below is an example of an image that I took from my camera phone and then added a few filters using Snapseed to give it that old style look. I began by using the Drama…

By Tim Barribeau The accepted story on the Internet is that Google+ is a ghost town, that Google squandered initial interest in the service by not letting people in quickly enough, and that it’s dead in the water. Yet, standing in proud defiance of that narrative is a plethora of photographers, who’ve flocked to Google+ and somehow transformed it into one…

Take your equine images from flat to fabulous!  A Nik Software user since 2001, horse photographer Lynne Glazer uses Nik filters on every image. Using Viveza 2 and Color Efex Pro 4, Lynne will show you how to rebalance light to increase impact to make up for less than ideal shooting conditions.  Using brushed on techniques as well as Control…