Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

Enhance colors and light selectively with NIK VIVEZA
Nik Software’s high-end editing plug-ins are used by
many professional photographers because of their
powerful algorithms for making changes to images.
You can control the changes to color and light in your
images and even target certain areas with Nik
Software’s Viveza. You can darken the background
and lighten the main subject, or modify the tones in
specific areas visually using interactive sliders.
Viveza, like other Nik Software plug-ins, includes the
custom U Point technology. You can add multiple
control points in the image and change how the filter
is applied to each area individually. As you move the
control point sliders to adjust the brightness,
contrast, and saturation, Viveza edits the colors of the
objects under the points and automatically blends the
tonal changes as it applies them. You can optionally
choose to paint the edits directly on the image using
the Brush option in the interface.
By applying Viveza to a Smart Object layer, you can
fine-tune any edits after they have been applied.
Viveza is also available as part of the complete
collection of Nik software plug-ins available at www.
niksoftware.com.
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1 With an image open, click Filter ➪
Convert for Smart Filters.
A The Background layer is changed
to a Smart Object layer.
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Note: Nik’s Brush option is
deactivated when using a Smart
Object layer.
2 Click Viveza 2 in the Selective tool.
Note: If the Selective tool is not
open, click File ➪ Automate ➪ Nik
Selective Tool.
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Note: You can optionally click
Filter ➪ Nik Software ➪ Viveza 2 to
open the Nik Viveza interface.
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The Viveza 2 interface appears.
3 Click the Side-by-Side preview
button to select a before and
after preview.
B You can also click the Split
preview button to display a split
preview.
4 Click Add Control Point.
5 Click an area in the photo to
adjust it.
C A control point appears.
6 Click and drag the top slider to
adjust the circle so it covers the
area to be changed.
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