The White Neutralizer filter within Color Efex Pro 4 removes color casts from light objects. This is a great filter to use to clean up images and create bright whites, without affecting any other color in your image. This is a quick and easy filter to use within Color Efex Pro 4, and by looking at the filter controls…

  A vignette is an artistic effect traditionally placed on the image during printing or, nowadays, during post production. Another type of vignetting, aside from the artistic application, can be attributed to the lens of the camera and is often referred to as optical vignetting. Optical vignetting results in a gradual darkening of the image towards the borders. This happens…

The Vignette Blur filter within Color Efex Pro 4 is another great filter to use to help lead the viewer to where we want them to look in an image. It does this by enabling us to soften the detail around the edges of the image, which then leads the viewer’s attention to what is sharp within the image. The…

  A vignette is an artistic effect used on an image where the edges gradually darken off into the surrounding color, while the image center remains at a normal brightness. The vignette was traditionally created in the darkroom by burning (or dodging) the outer edges to create the transition from the image to the outer color.  It is used to…

The Tonal Contrast filter within Color Efex Pro 4 is extremely powerful in the way it adds texture and detail to your image. The filter allows options from very subtle control to strong control in your enhancement of an image. Using this filter gives you the ability to control highlight, midtone, and shadow contrast, while also offering different methods of…

The Sunlight filter within Color Efex Pro 4 is a re-imagined version of the Sunshine filter; it adds light and warmth into any image. Using this filter makes any image look as though it was taken on a warm, sunny day, and adds softness, warmth, and interest into your images. By looking at the filter a little more closely, you…

Known as being one of the earliest effects in photography, true solarization occurs when there is a reversal of a portion of an image due to prolonged or extreme exposure to light. This is an in-camera effect, and there is no secondary exposure. The effect, as a dark room technique, was described by many photographers and documented in a number…

“Warming” filters in photography are traditional glass filters that can be added on to your lens to perform some form of color correction. The filter creates a color shift by altering the light passing through it to a lower color temperature than what the film or CCD expects, thereby warming the image. There are a number of different filters available for this (81A, 81B,…

  The Remove Color Cast filter within Color Efex Pro 4 is a quick and efficient filter to use when editing. It gives you the ability to remove color casts that may be present in your image, either globally or selectively with Control Points. This filter only has a few controls, and by reviewing them we can see how to…

  In photography, a reflector is a tool with a reflective surface that is commonly used to redirect or bounce light onto your subject. The intent is to act as a fill source, opening up the shadow values; however it can also be used as the main light source. There is a physical limitation to the effect of a reflector…