The biggest change is to the user interface, which has been completely redesigned with a far more modern look. Let's take a quick look at what's new in Silver Efex Pro 3. That actually makes it around $50 less for the full suite than Silver Efex Pro 1 or 2 used to cost standalone. The overall Nik Collection 4 is priced at $149 for new customers, with upgrades available to existing customers for $79. (And as of the recently-released Nik Collection 4 version 4.2, this includes support for Adobe Photoshop running natively on Apple M1 devices.) You can also apply color filters, reduce haze and finish your creations with toning, vignetting, borders and more.Įven at its default 'neutral' setting, Silver Efex Pro's rendering is noticeably different to that of a simple grayscale conversion in Photoshop.Ĭlick here for the full-sized Silver Efex image, here for Photoshop grayscale or here for full color.Īvailable immediately as part of the Nik Collection 4 bundle, Silver Efex Pro 3 can function either standalone or as a plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom and other compatible apps on both Windows 8.1+ or macOS 10.14+. Silver Efex allows you to make a wide range of adjustments to brightness, contrast, structure and tonality, either globally or locally using control points.

For less experienced users, a generous selection of presets are provided to get you started with minimal effort.

It allows users to simulate the look of specific real-world film types, manually tuning their color sensitivity and grain with an incredible amount of flexibility and precision.

Nik Silver Efex Pro 3 is a black-and-white conversion tool that goes far further than the grayscale or black-and-white tools built into Adobe Photoshop. Introduction | What's new | Interface | Conclusion For this review, though, we'd like to take a closer look at just one of the suite's most useful components, Silver Efex Pro 3. At the time, we looked at the overall suite with a focus on what was new. A few months ago we found a lot to like in the latest iteration of the Nik Collection, a suite of eight image processing tools initially developed by Nik Software and these days owned by French software company DxO.

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