Color Efex Pro 3.0 User Guide
Color Efex Pro 3.0 User Guide
Color Efex Pro 3.0 User Guide
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Chapter 2 : What’s New in <strong>3.0</strong><strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong><strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>The new, completely resizable interface is a professionalphotographic tool: color-neutral with a medium-gray backgroundand a strong focus on efficient workflow. <strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong> groupsmajor controls close together for greater efficiency, letting youachieve excellent results in less time. (Please see Chapter 5: <strong>Color</strong><strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong> Interface.)U Point-powered Control PointsWhat’s New in <strong>3.0</strong><strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong> offers many enhancements and improvementsover <strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> 2.0, in four general categories:• Interface• U Point ® -powered Control Points• Selective Tool Interaction• New FiltersInterface<strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> 2.0 users will notice the extensively reworkedinterface in version <strong>3.0</strong>, the result of both deep study into thelook and feel that professional photographers expect in modernapplications and requests from Nik Software users.U Point technology lets photographers achieve exactly what theyenvision in an easy, fast, intuitive manner. U Point-powered ControlPoints in <strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong> let you easily and selectively controlwhere each filter is applied to the images, without the use ofcomplicated selections or masks.Additionally, some new filters in <strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong> provide uniquefunctionality based entirely on U Point. (Please see Control Pointsin Chapter 5.)Selective Tool InteractionOriginally, the Selective Tool was used to specify when to apply a<strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> 2.0 filter selectively to an image. As the popularity of<strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> 2.0 grew, photographers discovered that the SelectiveTool offered more convenient access to filters than the Filters menu.<strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong> makes this access more convenient by giving youthe choice of selectively applying the filter in the Filter Interface.This lets you launch the <strong>Color</strong> <strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong> interface from either theSelective Tool or the Filters menu. (Please see Interaction with <strong>Color</strong><strong>Efex</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> <strong>3.0</strong> in Chapter 6.)5
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