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Plug In with Nik: A Photographer's Guide to Creating Dynamic Images with Nik Software
- By John Batdorff
- Published Jan 16, 2013 by Peachpit Press.
- Copyright 2013
- Dimensions: 7" x 9"
- Pages: 240
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-83977-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-83977-0
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Product Author Bios
John Batdorff is an award-winning landscape and travel photographer who splits his time between Chicago and Montana. He is the author of Black and White: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Nikon D7000: From Snapshots to Great Shots and a coauthor of Composition: From Snapshots to Great Shots. His black and white images have been featured in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He also leads black and white workshops and mentors other aspiring photographers. John loves the outdoors and traveling, and sharing his images with others. See his work and read his popular photography blog at batdorffphotography.com.
Extend your photographic vision and harness the full power of Nik's Plug-In Suite (now re-branded as the Nik Collection by Google) with this beautifully illustrated guide that covers the full plug-in suite: Dfine 2.0, Viveza 2, HDR Efex Pro 2, Color Efex Pro 4 Complete Edition, Silver Efex Pro 2, and Sharpener Pro 3.0. Pro photographer John Batdorff provides easy-to-follow instructions for processing and enhancing your landscapes, portraits, and streetscapes with Nik from start to finish.
Nik Collection by Google offers precise and natural enhancements without complicated selections or masks. John includes the benefits of each plug-in and how to incorporate each one in your workflow, whether you use Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Aperture, to create more dynamic photographs.
In this guide you will learn to: recognize and reduce digital noise using Dfine; fine-tune your color images using Global and Selective adjustments in Viveza; combine existing presets; understand key adjustments for creating HDR images; and create your own presets in Silver Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, and Color Efex Pro.
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful
This Book Might Teach You Something, By BostonAaron (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plug In with Nik: A Photographer's Guide to Creating Dynamic Images with Nik Software (Paperback)
This book represents the cheapest printed solution that might work to replace the missing manual not supplied by the software creator. If you are looking for some basic starting points on how to use the NIK tools this book will be of some value but, in truth, to really understand the major plug-ins the book would have to be much longer. In fact, Color Efex Pro 4, HDR Efex Pro 2 and Silver Efex Pro 2 each might require a book of this length (about 200 pages of pictures and text). For more in depth discussion of these tools try Jason Odell's luminescentphoto web site where he offers more examples in his e-books, each about 200 pages and each about the price of this book. And his books are not printed, so if you want to print them in color the total cost will be much, much higher than this book.I assume that most who buy this book already have at least one of the NIK software plug-ins. If you do then you probably already know that last September Google bought NIK... Read more
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Practical and Informative - Highly Recommend!, By Anthony (Tiburon, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Plug In with Nik: A Photographer's Guide to Creating Dynamic Images with Nik Software (Paperback)
Photography is just a hobby of mine, but I strive to create images just as stunning as professional photographers like John Batdorff. I've had the Nik plug-ins for about a year now, but my understanding and use of them has not been very complete. This book is providing me with a wealth of information for not only how I can more effectively utilize the many capabilities found within Nik plugins, but also how I can improve my workflow and overall photographic approach when working with images.The book provides practical step-by-step instructions that will get you started in using all of the Nik plug-ins (Dfine, Viveza 2, Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 2, HDR Efex Pro 2, and Sharpner). By registering your book with Peachpit, you are also able to download additional resources in which you can better practice the recommendations made by Batdorff in the book. By being able to apply the effects to the exact same images Batdorff uses in the book, I've gained a much better... Read more
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Could have been better,
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I am dissappointed in this book, It just glosses over the surface of all the programs that make up the Nik Software family. It was looking for some indepth information that I couldn't get from actual use of the programs themseves and this book didn't deliver it. Specific deficinies noted, The images the author uses to illustrate what he is talking about in the text are too small to show the differences that he is trying to show. In the ColorEfxPro 4 chapter he barely touches on all of the filters that the program has to offer. That program alone has 55 filters why not describe what each one does and some practical application of each? (that would have been of real value) In the HDREfxPro 2 chapter again he barely touches on any of the presets that come with the program as to where and when each would be useful. Overall I am sorry I purchased this book because I don't know more about the programs than I did before I purchased it.
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Plug In with Nik: Silver Efex Pro 2
Table of Contents
Getting Started Workflow and Interface
Chapter 1: Color Efex Pro 4
Chapter 2: Silver Efex Pro 2
Chapter 3: HDR Efex Pro
Chapter 4: Viveza 2
Chapter 5: Dfine 2.0
Chapter 6: Sharpening Pro 3
Chapter 7: Top 10 Ways to Improve Landscapes
Chapter 8: Top 10 Ways to Improve Portraits
Chapter 9: Advanced Techniques in Photoshop
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