![]() ![]() To buy the plugins individually was very expensive so I decided to buy the entire package called the “Nik Collection” for $499.95. Naturally I tried the Photoshop and Lightroom Demo of all of the plugins.I loved them. Sharpener Pro 3.0 – The most advanced, powerful, and complete sharpening solution for photographers.Silver Efex Pro 2 – The world’s leading black and white imaging software.Color Efex Pro 4 Complete Edition – The photographer’s choice for photographic filters.HDR Efex Pro – The new professional standard for powerful realistic and artistic HDR imaging.Viveza 2 – Powered by U Point® technology, Viveza 2 is the most powerful and precise tool available to globally or selectively control light and color in photographs without the need to create complicated selections or layer masks.Dfine 2.0 – Best-in-class noise reduction to improve the quality of virtually every photo.But you can do a lot of things in LR.Several years ago I noticed that a lot of the professional photographs I really like were edited in one way or with plugins plugins from a company called “Nik Software”. My finish work.Īs to whether you need plugins. My best images still go into PS, but it's generally for detailed burning and dodging, clones, running an action etc. I do color tweaks, silver conversions and major control over dynamic range and general correction all in LR. ![]() I always tell people that LR does 90% of what most of us do in PS but 5x faster.įor me. On the other side of that coin, color processes, creative tones silver conversion and the like are amazing in LR and I would say offer even more quality and flexibility than going to PS or a plugin because you can do them all non destructively on the orig file. That kind of stuff does not work that well in LR (negative clarity is not soft focus Whether you use Nik, an action, or do it manually. Things that get into blurring, skin smooth, glows etc are in the Photoshop universe. I am a maker of LR tools and a huge LR nerd. I have a publish Service that will automatically refresh my AppleTV image folder to keep a fresh slide show of the best images shot in the last 6 mopnths.īoth have their place, but I would contend that many things that Nik plugins can do, LR can do also. I am now in the process of deciding which images will go in the lecture and I am using LR to make that decision and automatically collect the 80-100 image that will go into the powerpoint presentation. In only a little more time than it took me to write this sentence, I created a new HD publish service, and located every Dragonfly and damsel fly image in my inventory (527 out of ~13000 images). If you think that is a lot, consider that my total image work time is less than before I started using LR.Īs an example, I am giving a talk on Dragonflies next month to the local Nature Center. ![]() I would estimate that 80% of my time in LR is spent organizing images through keywords collections and publishing services. What LR offers that the others don't is a complete image asset management tool and non destructive editing. The nice thing about LR is that for the other 3%, you still have access to Vivez, Color Efex Pro, and/or Silver Efex Pro either as a plugin or as a shell out to the external EXE. There are a few instances where LR does not have the functionality built-in. I find that I can completely post process over 97% of my RAW images in LR. If you are only looking at LR as a post processing engine, the best answer is 'sort of'. ![]()
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