I bought the NIK Collection for the Define noise reduction and Sharpener Pro plug-ins only, based on a recommendation from others and a couple Youtube videos explaining their use. Plus, for your money ($149 and 15% off coupons available everywhere, so net is ~$127), you get the entire Nik Collection, which includes the best noise reduction program out there (Dfine 2.0), a control point enabled basic editor (Viveza 2), a world class B&W conversion tool (Silver Efex Pro 2), and a pair of phenomenal (and control point enabled) filter packages (Color Efex Pro 4, Analog Efex). White balance inconsistencies across the image? Control point. Want a face to be less surreal than the rest of the image? Control point. Want to desaturate the blues that are getting blown out, but not lose other colors? Control point. Want a natural looking photo but some surreal texture on the water? Place a control point on the water - done. Simply stick a control point on the problem area and adjust 8 key parameters based on the color of the point you place the point on. Sometimes you can get an image 95% of the way there but no matter what you do there's the trouble spot or two, or range of colors somewhere, that you just can't get right. These are what make the Nik Tools so effective. And it will give me something surreal when I need it.ģ. HDR Efex Pro 2 will give me full blown natural, can't tell it's not just a really well lit photo, whenever I want. But not many allow you to pull all sorts of light out in a very natural looking way. There are a lot of programs that can give you that super structured, compressed HDR look. It allows you to select a reference frame and it will eliminate elements that are different in other frames.Ģ.
Using HDR in a moving world means that you can't always get 3-9 consecutive frames to match perfectly. I started with Nik and downloaded a trial version of Photomatix just to be able to speak to it. › See More: Photomatix VS NIK HDR Efex Pro I've read some comments here on this topic, and it may have been beat to death already, but time has a way of changing opinions. For example, does one do a better job of controlling the "haloing effect" between objects and sky?
However, I would still like to hear others' thoughts on these two HDR programs, in case there's some aspect of both/either that I haven't or won't discover myself. I do plan to try it as well, and ultimately will make my decision based off my own experience with both. I've also heard good things about NIK HDR Efex Pro, but haven't had an opportunity to experiment with it yet. I like Photomatix a lot because it does a great job of alignment, it has nice ghost control, and I like the many tone mapping options you can experiment with, though I'm far from proficient with it. I recently purchased the NIK Collection, and I've already had Photomatix for several months now. For those of you who have tried both, which do you prefer and why?
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