


Silver Efex allows you to make a wide range of adjustments to brightness, contrast, structure and tonality, either globally or locally using control points. For less experienced users, a generous selection of presets are provided to get you started with minimal effort. It allows users to simulate the look of specific real-world film types, manually tuning their color sensitivity and grain with an incredible amount of flexibility and precision.

Nik Silver Efex Pro 3 is a black-and-white conversion tool that goes far further than the grayscale or black-and-white tools built into Adobe Photoshop. Introduction | What's new | Interface | Conclusion For this review, though, we'd like to take a closer look at just one of the suite's most useful components, Silver Efex Pro 3. At the time, we looked at the overall suite with a focus on what was new. A few months ago we found a lot to like in the latest iteration of the Nik Collection, a suite of eight image processing tools initially developed by Nik Software and these days owned by French software company DxO.
