Color Efex Pro 3.0 User Guide

Chapter 1 : IntroductionColor Efex Pro 3.0User GuideVersionsNik Software offers three versions of Color Efex Pro 3.0, with thesame functions and interface in all versions. The Complete Editioncontains 52 filters, the Select Edition contains 35 filters, and theStandard Edition contains 15 filters.What’s in the User GuideIntroductionWelcome to Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0, the most advanced setof filters for digital photography.Digital photographers have come to appreciate and take advantageof unprecedented levels of control over their images. They enjoymore options than ever to enhance, stylize, and otherwise improveupon photographs. All of this additional control, however, has ledphotographers to increasingly complicated choices of adjustments,filters and blends, and away from the art of control.In addition to providing installation instructions, the User Guideshows you how to choose, control, and selectively apply filters, bothwith U Point-powered Control Points and the updated Selective Tool.The User Guide also points out differences between Color Efex Pro3.0 and Color Efex Pro 2.0.The typographical conventions used in this manual are:• Color Efex Pro 3.0 processes and user interface componentsappear in Initial Caps, with first instances in Bold Caps. (Incontext-appropriate cases, later instances also appear inBold Caps.)• Specific control inputs appear in Bold Italic. Control inputscan be menu items, buttons, or sliders. Where first instancescoincide with specific control inputs, the term appears inBold Italic.Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are designed to make photographicenhancements not only easier, but better. Based on continuousfeedback from professionals in Nik Software’s photographercommunity, Color Efex Pro 3.0 is a suite of proven controls tohelp photographers save time, get professional results and decomplicatethe art of enhancing their images.3