To take full advantage of RAW Presharpener, we recommend that you disable any in-camera sharpening and sharpening in the host RAW file processing software. The RAW Presharpener module, as its name suggests, is intended for the preliminary sharpening of RAW files, which are generally softer due to several possible factors, including the presence of a low-pass filter in front of the sensor in-camera processing and processing applied to a file upon its import into RAW development software. Incidentally, they all seem to work in Capture One too.The Sharpener Pro 3 module is composed of two separate modules that are used at two different stages of the image processing workflow: RAW Presharpener, for preliminary sharpening and Output Sharpener, for output sharpening. I’ll have more details when I get to try more tools. There is a lovely quality to the blur it uses.

Its one of the few things I’ve played around with so far, but it’s really nice. There’s a cool one-click miniature effect in Perspective Efex. It’s the perfect plugin for creating natural-looking family and wedding photos with a more pleasing look! Use Perspective Efex to instantly correct distorted figures and faces that often appear at the edges of group and wedding photos taken with wide-angle lenses. It’s the quickest and easiest way to fix the most complex geometric distortions – including barrel, pincushion, and even fisheye distortion. Using either automatic corrections or reference lines, Perspective Efex can correct keystoning in urban and architectural photos, no matter how complex. Perspective Efex automatically corrects geometric flaws in your photos. Export images as TIFF files from Adobe Lightroom Classic and tweak your plugin edits as many times as you like while keeping your original adjustments completely safe and totally reversible. How would you like to be able to edit and re-edit your Nik plugin settings without destroying or losing any of the edits you’ve already made with Adobe Lightroom Classic? This brilliant new non-destructive workflow is exclusive to Nik Collection 3.

(This info is taken from their website/press release) > Non Destructive Workflow with Lightroom The new version which is available now contains numerous upgrades, as well as an all new tool: Perspective EFX. DXO has just released a major update for its Nik collection of software tools.

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