Nik Software Launches New Efex Pro HDR Software

Professional and amateur photographers can now quickly and easily accomplish a full spectrum of High Dynamic Range (HDR (News - Alert)) enhancements with the help of new HDR Efex Pro software from Nik Software.

Nik Software is a provider of software solutions for the imaging and photography markets. Nik Software’s new HDR Efex Pro is a new HDR imaging solution. It features a revolutionary all-in-one approach and multiple tone mapping algorithms that helps users to get realistic and artistic results of an image within a single tool

For those unaware, HDR photos are those photos that have larger dynamic range than an ordinary photo. Dynamic range is the difference between the lightest and the darkest color value in a photo. HDR makes it possible to capture pictures with extremely high contrast. In general, HDR photos include all the details that a human eye can see.

However, many digital consumer cameras are not able to capture pictures of HDR. To achieve this, additional support is required and HDR photography is a solution.

According to Nik Software, the new HDR Efex Pro software brings innovative and best-in-class technologies to HDR photography.

Featuring an intuitive interface with easy to understand photographic terminology, the new Efex Pro software comes with advanced technology for automatic image alignment and reduction of subject motion artifacts known as “ghosts.” In addition, the all-in-one 32-bit color workflow facilitates in the creation of professional HDR images.

Some of the other options enabled by HDR Efex Pro software include single-click visual style presets, global adjustments such as exposure, contrast, structure to fine detail contrast, and a new HDR Method option that leverages four tone-mapping algorithms. The multiple proprietary tone mapping algorithms facilitates for a wide range of HDR styles.

Apart from providing the ability to create the HDR look from a single exposure, the new software also encompasses the company’s proprietary U Point powered selective controls. This provides precise selective fine-tuning of images without the need for complicated selections or layer masks.

The U Point powered selective tools allows for fast, precise enhancements of contrast, shadow, structure, saturation adjustments, and more. With the help of U Point technology, photographers can precisely control selective adjustments with a single mouse-click. In addition, the software helps users to get high-quality finishing adjustments, such as vignette controls and levels and curves, thereby making it possible to easily accomplish a range of enhancements.

Furthermore, the ability to create the HDR look from a single exposure helps photographers to reprocess a single image in which an exposure series was not previously shot or for subject matter that does not lend itself to multiple exposures, said officials with Nik Software.

Available for a suggested retail price of $159.95, the new software is available as a free update for those who purchased the Nik Software Complete Collection after July 25, within North America.