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Viveza 2 – fine photo editing in Photoshop

Company Nik Software, manufacturer of popular plug-ins for Photoshop, to announce the second version of add-ons Viveza . Plug-in Viveza is intended primarily for photographers and provides an opportunity to selectively control color and light in the image.

At the heart of Viveza Technology U Point, which makes it possible to abandon the complex secretions or layer masks. The user specifies the so-called point Color Management (Color Control Points). Next, using the sliders, the user can control the brightness, color, contrast and other parameters. Since the plug-in itself creates a mask based on the points specified by the user, the time spent editing photos, markedly decreases.

The latest version adds new tools to work with levels and curves, the function recovery shadows, improved management of small details, improved the accuracy of selection and changes in the interface that adds support for Smart Filter and Selective Brush tool in Photoshop, added support for 64-bit versions of Windows, the opportunity to work with multiple images simultaneously in Lightroom and Aperture.

Viveza is estimated at 200 euros and works with the programs Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Apple Aperture.

materials on the topic:

– Video Course Photoshop from Optolog;

– Photoshop CS4 Extended: going beyond 2D.