Glamour Glow in Color Efex Pro 4 simulates soft focus filters and diffusion techniques (mainly known to portrait photographers) to give a dreamy, soft look to your images. The Glamour Glow filter allows us to achieve this effect without the extra on-camera equipment that was traditionally used. It can be used to give a romantic, even a dramatic quality to…

It’s Filter Friday!  Lets take a look at a wedding image enhanced with Color Efex Pro 4.  Color Efex Pro 4′s ability to stack filters made it easy to quickly add different filters to enhance this image.   Here is the before: I wanted to soften the skin tones and the background just slightly more, as well as draw the…

One of my new favorite filters in Nik Software’s new Color Efex Pro 4 is the new, fantastic Detail Extractor filter, which I found works especially well on grunge subjects like old cars. But, I found that detail-enhancing filters, for example Tonal Contrast and Detail Extractor could make an image a bit flat if used on the high end of…