![]() As I have found using graphics tablet and stylus the best way for me to apply the brushes for that fine tuning in On1 Raw. Found your tutorial on which On1 Raw filters/presets were Nik equivalents or near enough, or how to get similar results. That being typed: I have been working my way through ON1 Raw tools. I found it, using the control points, the best way to fine tune B&W images. I only used about half of the Color Efex 4 filters. I don’t really think (this is just my opinion) that you showed what it could really for an image. I did use Define (typically had to lower the opacity if the finished Define layer to about 50% as I found Define too aggressive and would smooth out details). I never used sharpener, I did have fun playing with Analog Efex. perfect brush is powerful as well as all gradient type. I wanted effects so i switched to on1 and i am very happy with this product especially since bw, color enhancer, vignette,… are stackable. for noise i used imagenomic noisegrain or something like that and noise ninja. Problems start… so i switched to lightroom definitely with sylver efex pro2. When lr4 and lr5 come, nx2 started to become a little old. I have a D300 so I started with nx2 with color efex pro 3 (cep3) for nx2 and external sylver efex pro 2 (sep2) so i am a big fan of nik products an u-points but i agree that when i started to use nx2, lightroom version was 3 very weak compared to nx2+cep3 forlocal adjustments in non destructive way. It was intersting to see the substitute filters but at same time to see how Mat use the on1 sliders. Make sure to go over to and check out the full release about this new free course. What about Viveza, Dfine, Sharpener and Analog Efex?.Silver Effects and ON1 Black and Whites.Five Things I Think You’ll Like Better In ON1 Effects.Using Color Efex Presets and ON1 Presets.Using Color Efex Filters and ON1 Filters.How to Launch ON1 Effects from Lightroom or Photoshop.I don’t spend much time on them because most people have a workflow in a raw editor, and all of these tasks should be done there (where you get better results anyway), rather than a plug-in. All I want to do is give you an option if you want to find an alternative to Nik, and show you what I personally use.įinally, I briefly touch on Viveza, Analog Efex, Sharpener, and Dfine. I won’t get in to the debate of whether or not there’s anything comparable to Silver Efex, since that’s in the eye of the beholder. Then I cover Silver Efex Pro and how to get something similar in ON1 Effects with their black & white conversion. If you even use Curves anymore (which most people don’t), that would be something you’d do in your raw editor of choice (I personally use Lightroom, but there’s a lot of others out there and ON1 even has their own raw editor). So there are filters in there that just don’t make sense in today’s workflow. Keep in mind, Nik CEP is old – like really old. Then I dive in to an overview cheat-sheet of sorts, that shows a Nik filter and what filters I think produce something close or similar in ON1 Effects. How you launch ON1 (just like Nik), and how the Filters and Presets work similar to the way they work in Nik. ![]() First I show you how the two are similar. The course mainly covers Nik Color Efex Pro (which was the most popular plug-in Nik had) and how to get something similar in ON1 Effects. ![]() This course is meant to be something where Nik users can see what I switched to, and how it works similar to what you had with Nik – and how it’s different. That said, the writing is on the wall and probably has been since Google made Nik free last year – Nik is unfortunately dead – Google even posted a message on the Nik home page that says it will no longer be updated (not even maintenance upgrades to make it work with Adobe®, Apple® or Windows®). It seems there was a software update that broke it for some folks, but it also seems like there are some workarounds that will get it to work. Last month I saw a ton of questions, Facebook®/Twitter® posts and just about everything else when Google®/Nik stopped working for some people. Here is a portion of the release from Matt’s recent post announcing the free course. To get this free course, just pop over to Matt’s website. The best part – the course is completely FREE! ON1 Guru Matt Kloskowski just released a new course for those left wondering what to do once their Nik Software stops working.
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