Nik Software on Wednesday announced a new variant of its photo-editing software that will run as a plug-in to Adobe Systems' Photoshop.
The company's Viveza plug-in brings the "U Point" editing method, already available in Nik's Capture NX software, to Photoshop. The software functions as a Photoshop smart filter, which means it can be applied nondestructively and updated later.
Viveza will ship in the US in the first quarter for Windows and Mac OS X and cost about US$250, Nik said at the Photo Marketing Association trade show in Las Vegas.
The U Point system is an attempt to simplify photo-editing tasks that often require complicated selection and masking operations. Placing control points on an image gives users sliders to adjust colour, saturation, lighting, and other parameters, and those adjustments also affect other parts of the image similar to where the control point is located.
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canberra_photographer
22/03/2008 12:57 AM
The U-point technology is found in Color Efex Pro and Viveza, both acting as powerful plugins to edit image properties. The Viveza plug in does not actually bring U-point to Photoshop itself, only the plugin which operates as a program within Photoshop.
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