Where I stood, there was a lone tree stump glistening in the sunlight, and the stark contrast between the stump and the dark looming clouds in the background caught my eye. In the image below, I recall that there was an intense storm moving in, and dark clouds were quickly encroaching. Ask yourself “What features were present in this scene that made me want to capture this image…what was the attraction?” Whatever the inspiration was, this is one of the things that you should focus on when enhancing your image-try to emphasize it and share it with the viewer. When enhancing images, it’s good to think back and remember what aspects of the scene caught your eye. I’ll also be using some other tools from the Nik Software collection such as Color Efex Pro 3.0, Viveza 2, and Dfine 2.0. In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate the use of this wonderful tool on a noisy, relatively low quality image that I captured back in 2002 using a Nikon 995 digital camera. The tool offers loads of flexibility and and high quality results with minimal loss of image information (just like all of the Nik Software tools). Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in is “King of the Hill” when it comes to processing black and white images.
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