Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 photographic filters offer features and functionality that are designed to make digital photographic enhancements and digital photography not only easier, but better. Recognized as the leader in digital photographic filters, the three Adobe® Photoshop® plug-in collections from Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 provide you with a wide range of filters and effects that make enhancing and transforming your images better than ever.

Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 filters have all been updated to include more functionality and better features, along with more filters and effects. Some of these include:

• 16-bit functionality
  
• The True Light™ Color Engine that provides even better photographic enhancements by preserving the relationships between color, contrast, and detail. The True Light Color Engine provides more natural film-like images and allows users to achieve far better quality enhancements, with more natural and photographic results.
  
• The Advanced Panel provides controls to adapt the filter’s enhancement to enable it to protect the highlights and shadows in the image in order to provide higher quality effects and enhancements. Available only in selected filters, the Advanced Panel provides a histogram that enables you to identify potential problems in the image.
  
• Larger and expanded preview options.
  
• A Sammonive module that enables users to apply any filter quickly and easily to any part of an image, while taking advantage of pressure sensitivity when used with a Wacom tablet.
  
• A series of Reflector filters that controls and adds light similar to conventional photographic reflectors.
  
• Infrared conversion (Color, Black and White, and Thermal Camera).
  
• Cross Processing filters (both C41 – E6 and E6 – C41).
  
• And over 30 new filters in all.

How the Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Filters Work

Nik Software utilizes leading digital photographic filter technology to create powerful and versatile photographic Photoshop plug-ins. Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 filters use the True Light color processing system that considers the existing color and light information in an image automatically to provide optimal photographic enhancements.

Each Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 filter adapts its effect based on the detail structures, colors, and contrast range of each image. By identifying the unique qualities of the image that the filter is processing, each filter is able to achieve consistency across a range of images. This consistency provides greater productivity as the filters can be applied with the same settings across a wide range of images.

Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 filters adapt to any previous filter adjustment or any other change made to the image to provide natural color and light enhancements. This feature becomes increasingly important since applying filters in a different order will provide you with more control over your images, as well as more options for great, natural photographic enhancements.

The combination of the True Light color processing system along with each filter's adaptive nature provides a truly unique system of controlling the light and color in virtually any image.

Compatible with Adobe Photoshop 5.5 through Photoshop CS2,
Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0 through 4.0, and any other application that supports the Adobe Photoshop plugin standard.

The Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Rick Sammon Edition is a collection of 12 filters, hand picked by Rick Sammon. These 12 filters offer a wide range of professional photographic enhancements, from the B/W Conversion and Midnight Sepia filters, to the Vignette Blur filter, and the critically acclaimed Sunshine filter. In this collection Rick Sammon provides video lessons that include step by step instructions ranging from installing the filters to demonstrating how Rick uses some of the filters.

Visit Rick Sammon’s Pixel Magic web page for lessons on using Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements at www.rickspixelmagic.com