Lightroom Classic CC is the only choice on the list for installation of the Nik Collection 2 plug-in. Suggestions appreciated. The only work around is to go to the External Editing Tab and change the 2nd editor to one of the Nik apps and restart Lightroom. Open Lightroom again and look to see if the Nik Collection product is now installed under Photo Edit In name of product. If it does not appear to be installed, please continue to step 4. While Lightroom is still open, click Edit Preferences OR Lightroom Preferences.
A common question among Nik Collection by DxO users is which filters should be used first. With sharpening, noise reduction and creative filters at your disposal, what’s the ideal order to run them in to get the best possible result?
In brief, it’s actually pretty easy, and quite logical when you think through it. You may not be using all of these tools, but the order should be:
The idea is that we start with an image that’s as sharp as it can be. Strip away any noise that is there because of a high-ISO shot or even noise that’s been enhanced by pre-sharpening. Apply any corrective edits (exposure adjustment, retouching, cropping, etc.). Do the majority of the creative work. And if you’re going to B&W and want to add any effects that aren’t part of Silver Efex Pro, do those before the B&W conversion. And then do a final sharpening pass that’s optimized for screen or print at the exact size (and in the case of print; paper type) that your audience will see.
Here’s a real-world example! I’m going to be using Adobe Photoshop as the host for the image, because with Smart Objects, that gives me the most flexibility throughout the process. You could also send your photo from Adobe Lightroom CC Classic, from DxO PhotoLab, or any other host app that supports the Nik plug-ins. In the event you’re using Adobe Lightroom CC (the cloud-based version), while you can’t access the Nik plugins from within Lightroom, you can do your global corrective edits and then open a Photoshop file. This will give you access to the entire Nik Collection.
Here’s the photo I’ll be working with:
When you first open a RAW file in Adobe Photoshop, you start in Bridge, which is your RAW decode process. I like to do as much work as I can to the RAW file, which for most photos means DxO PhotoLab or Adobe Lightroom. But I know I’m going to apply a bunch of Nik tools to this one. So I’ll start with Adobe Photoshop so every adjustment can be a smart adjustment that can be re-edited at any time. It’ll make for a big file, but I like the flexibility.
For this particular photo, there isn’t much to do. It’s well exposed, but some of the highlights — notably on the white paint over his eye on the right side of the image where the sun is hitting — are a little bright, so I’ll bring those down with the Highlights slider.
Then to create the PSD file, you could just click Open Image. But if you hold down the Shift key, that button becomes Open Object, creating a PSD document with that photo as a Smart Object. Thismeans you can go back and re-edit the RAW file at any time if you like — plus all adjustments will be added as editable Smart Filter.
This particular photo was shot in broad daylight at a low ISO, so it’s virtually noise-free. But it can’t hurt to double check it. Remember that since the photo is a Smart Object when you choose Filter > Nik Collection > DFine 2.0, you’ll get a dialog reminding you that this will be applied as a Smart Filter.
DFine will run completely automatically, or you can take over and do manual control as well. Turner 1 0. In this case, I’ll just leave it in auto-mode, and it turns out that while the main subject is virtually unchanged, the background is getting quite a bit of noise reduction applied.
After a bit of playing around, I found a double exposure preset that I thought might make a cool, artsy B&W image (remember I’ll add the B&W later). In fact, it looks a little bit mystical to
I can’t mask elements out inside the filter (it’s two of the effects, the Double Exposure and the Bokeh that are creating that issue). So I went ahead and applied the filter, then duplicated the entire image + filter stack in Photoshop, opened the Analog Efex filter again on the bottom layer, and disabled those two filters. Now I have two
Next I want to convert to B&W, but I’ve created a problem for myself. Since I’ve duplicated the
There are lots of destructive ways to handle this (i.e. simply flatten everything), but since I want to maintain complete edibility, the solution is to take both of these Smart Objects and “convert” them into another Smart Object! To do that, simply select both layers, right-click and choose Convert to Smart Object. Now they will appear as a single Smart Object, and to edit the original contents, just double-click on it to open it up (as if it were a different file), and make the changes. Perfect! Once the new Smart Object is created, just as before you can apply a filter from the Filters menu.
After poking around the presets, I settled on 013 Grad ND (of course you can do this all by hand, but I love starting with presets for creative inspiration), added a little burned edges and dropped a control point on his face and cranked up the structure some more. I also dropped another small control point on the bright spot on his nose, which was at risk of blowing out, to reduce exposure a bit.
And here’s the final before and after!
Output sharpening is unique for the final output. That means if you’re displaying it on screen at 2048 pixels wide, or printing a 5×7 or 11×14 or 20×30, on an inkjet or continuous tone or halftone printer, glossy or matte paper — they all require different settings. So you can’t simply choose one sharpening setting and output from there. What you really need to do is first scale the image to the output size and resolution, and then apply the sharpening.
Conventionally, if you do this you would be altering the pixels. But since you’re working with Smart Objects, you won’t be! Think of the Smart Object as a file embedded within a file (because that’s what it is). If you have a regular image that’s 5,000 pixels wide and shrink it to 500 pixels, you will be throwing away a ton of data. If you then scaled that back up to 5,000 pixels, it’d look horrible, because so much of
With all that said, with this one file, we can now output any size we want by first changing the image size, applying
https://bestefile763.weebly.com/casino-sites-no-deposit-required.html. Let’s say I want to print a small, 5×7 inch image. First I will SAVE my work at this final edited state. That will make it easy to get back to the original size, by simply reverting the file (or closing without saving).
Then I’ll open Image > Image Size and change it to the dimensions (5 x 7 inches) and resolution (let’s say my printer asked for a 266
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Apply that, save out a 100% quality JPEG or TIF file, and send that to the print company! Or of
The same thing applies for screen viewing. Scale the image to the size you plan to upload, apply the sharpening, and output a JPEG. That’s it!
That’s what this is here… a scaled to 2048 pixels wide image sharpened for screen and saved at 100% JPEG, then run through JPEG Mini to shrink the file size down. Of
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