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CLOSED---------MAY 16TH, 2010 - Nik Software Plug-ins: The Ultimate in Creative Control--LEARN HOW TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL IMAGES QUICKLY AND EASILY
| Registration fee | 129.95 USD |
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| Course type | Lecture |
| Instructor | Brian Zwit |
| Time | Sunday, 2010-05-16, 9:00a.m.–4:00p.m. |
| First session | 2010-05-16 09:00 |
| Location | Sterling, VA |
Dfine reduces noise in an image while protecting the detail in the image. Sharpener Pro has two components. The first is for presharpening your raw images and the second for customizing your output sharpening for the size of the print, output device, type of paper, and resolution of the printer. To correct specific areas of an image, Viveza creates masks on-the-fly, applying a correction only to the area of the image that needs the correction. Color Efex Pro is a collection of special and just plain helpful effects for your images, and Silver Efex Pro converts your images to black and white.
While there are similar functions available in Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture, Nik’s plug-ins are exceedingly well-designed, provide excellent results, and expand the control and features available inside their host program. This class will explore each of the plug-ins, providing basic instruction on when and how to use each plug-in as well as tips for getting the most from each one.
Tentative Agenda
9:00 am Introductions, Logistics, and Overview
9:15 am Viveza
- Using control points (U-Point) to make local corrections
- Overview of the user interface
- Making local brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, red, green, blue, and warmth corrections
10:15 am Dfine
- Reducing noise in the camera versus with software
- Overview of the user interface
- Measure and Reduce modes
- Selective noise reduction using control points and color ranges
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Sharpener Pro 3.0
- Presharpening versus output sharpening
- Overview of the user interface
- Presharpening raw images
- Output sharpening
- Selective sharpening using control points and color ranges
12:00 noon Lunch
1:15 pm Color Efex Pro
- Available image effects
- Overview of the user interface
- Global settings and localized corrections using control points
2:00 pm Break
2:15 pm Silver Efex Pro
- Converting images to black and white
- Overview of the user interface
- Overall conversion settings and local corrections using control points
- Using color filters, choosing a film types, and stylizing your image
3:15 pm Working Nik Software Plug-ins into Your Workflow
- Integrating Nik plug-ins into your workflow
- Differences in behavior between Aperture, Lightroom, and Photoshop
3:30 pm Questions
4:00 pm Class ends
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR COMPUTER AND YOUR OPERATING SYSTEMS EITHER WINDOWS OR MAC. THIS CLASS IS SPECIFICALLY FOR ADOBE LIGHTROOM SOFTWARE.
Prerequisites
Students should bring their laptops to class loaded with a working copy of Lightroom 2.0, Photoshop CS3 or CS4, or Apple Aperture and the Nik software plug-ins for whichever image editing software is installed on the computer. Familiarity with Lightroom, Photoshop, or Aperture will greatly enhance the learning experience.
Thirty-day trial versions of Lightroom and Photoshop are available at www.adobe.com and a trial version of Apple Aperture at www.apple.com. Fifteen-day trial versions of the Nik Software plug-ins are available for download from the www.niksoftware.com.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR COMPUTER AND YOUR OPERATING SYSTEMS EITHER WINDOWS OR MAC. THIS CLASS IS SPECIFICALLY FOR ADOBE LIGHTROOM SOFTWARE.
Target group
Everyone and anyone who wants to enhance the capability of their software using Nik Software's plug-ins and learn how to use the plug-ins to produce beautiful images easier and faster, and in your own style.