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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Why This Book and Why Now | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Editing Basics | |
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| Fundamental Editing Techniques | |
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| Evaluating an image before editing | |
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| Planning your edits based on the human visual system | |
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| Editing Terminology | |
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| The Digital Workflow | |
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| A Basic Workflow | |
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| Use the correct settings | |
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| Organize your images | |
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| Identify images to edit | |
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| Apply any RAW-based adjustments | |
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| Apply lens-based enhancements | |
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| Crop the image | |
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| Apply noise reduction | |
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| Do panorama stitching or HDR merging and tone mapping | |
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| Retouch dust or other imperfections | |
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| Use Viveza 2 to balance light and color | |
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| Stylize with Color Efex Pro or Silver Efex Pro | |
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| Make a final round of clean-up | |
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| For Photoshop only: Save a master version | |
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| For Photoshop only: Resize based on output | |
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| Sharpen based on output | |
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| For Photoshop only: Save your sharpened working file | |
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| Print or upload your masterpiece | |
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| Creating a Custom Workflow | |
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| Noise reduction | |
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| Resizing | |
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| Cropping | |
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| RAW presharpening versus sharpening | |
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| Output sharpening | |
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| Living in the land of 2 percent versus the real world | |
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| Your Personal Workflow | |
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| The Nik Software Editing Environment | |
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| Differences in Host Applications | |
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| Adobe Photoshop | |
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| Adobe Photoshop Elements | |
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| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom | |
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| Aperture | |
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| Standalone Nik Software plug-ins | |
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| Other Host Applications | |
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| Which Host Application to Use? | |
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| Standardized user interface | |
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| Left pane | |
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| Top toolbar | |
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| Right pane | |
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| Bottom toolbar | |
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| Image area | |
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| Batch Processing in Photoshop | |
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| UPoint | |
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| U Point Technology Explained | |
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| How U Point Technology Works | |
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| Using Anchor Control Points | |
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| The Different Uses of U Point Technology | |
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| What Is Noise? | |
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| Dfine 2.0 | |
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| How Dfine 2.0 Works | |
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| Step 1: Measuring Noise | |
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| Step 2: Reducing Noise | |
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| Reducing noise globally and selectively with control points | |
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| Reducing noise globally and selectively with color ranges | |
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| Using the Advanced Noise Reduction tools | |
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| Using the Modes Popup Menu to Review the Noise and Selection Masks | |
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| When to Use Dfine 2.0 to Reduce Noise85 | |
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| Viveza 2 | |
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| The Viveza 2 Interface | |
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| Adding control points | |
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| Grouping and ungrouping | |
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| Global and selective indicators | |
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| Expand and Collapse buttons | |
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| Enhancement sliders | |
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| Color picker and Eyedropper tool | |
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| Control Point List | |
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| Levels and Curves control | |
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| Applying Viveza 2 to Your Photographs | |
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| Working with landscape images | |
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| Working with portrait images103 | |
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| HDR Efex Pro 3.0 | |
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| HDR Imaging Explained | |
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| The two stages of HDR image processing | |
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| How to Capture and Process the Image Series for Best Results | |
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| Reducing motion | |
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| Optimal camera settings | |
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| Processing a series of images | |
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| Working with HDR Efex Pro | |
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| Merging with HDR Efex Pro | |
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| Alignment and ghost-reduction settings | |
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| Tone mapping with HDR Efex Pro | |
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| HDR panoramas | |
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| Setting up to shoot an HDR panorama | |
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| Creating the panoramas | |
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| Create the HDR panorama | |
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| Color Efex Pro 4 | |
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| Working with the Filter List and Presets141 | |
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| Basic Controls144 | |
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| Taking Advantage of Recipes149 | |
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| Th e Powerful History Browser151 | |
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| Example Images and Enhancements152 | |
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| Example 1: A portrait photo | |
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| ample 2: A landscape photo | |
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| Example 3: An architectural photo | |
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| Silver Efex Pro 2 | |
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| Creating Amazing Black-and-White Images | |
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| Working with Silver Efex Pro 2 | |
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| Starting with presets | |
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| Brightness controls | |
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| Contrast controls | |
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| Structure controls | |
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| Selective Adjustments Section | |
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| Color filters | |
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| Film types | |
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| Finishing Adjustments Section | |
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| Loupe & Histogram Section | |
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| History Browser | |
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| Image Workflows | |
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| A portrait image | |
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| A portrait image | |
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| A landscape image | |
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| Sharpener Pro 3.0 | |
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| Th e Importance of Sharpening Digital Images | |
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| Detail loss during capture | |
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| Detail loss during image processing | |
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| Detail loss during output | |
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| Removing the Guesswork from a Complicated Task | |
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| How Sharpener Pro 3.0 Works | |
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| Applying Sharpener Pro to Your Images | |
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| RAW Presharpening | |
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| Output-based sharpening | |
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| Creative sharpening | |
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| Important Controls in the Settings | |
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| Default Control Point Settings | |
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| Image Size sliders | |
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| Portraits Start to Finish | |
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| Example 1: Candace | |
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| What we did in Viveza 2 | |
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| What we did in Color Efex Pro 4 | |
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| What we did in Sharpener Pro 3.0 | |
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| Example 2: Lori | |
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| What we did in Viveza 2 | |
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| What we did in Color Efex Pro 4 | |
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| What we did in Sharpener Pro 3.0 | |
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| Landscapes Start to Finish | |
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| Example 1: Trees of Peterhof | |
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| What we did in Dfi ne 2.0 | |
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| What we did in Silver Efex Pro 2 | |
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| What we did in Sharpener Pro 3.0 | |
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| Example 2: Cliff Jump | |
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| What we did in Dfine 2.0 | |
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| What we did in Viveza 2 | |
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| What we did in Color Efex Pro 4 | |
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| Example 3: Black-and-White HDR | |
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| What we did in HDR Efex Pro | |
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| What we did in Silver Efex Pro 2 | |
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| The Rise of Digital Photography and the History of Nik | |
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| The Rise of Digital Photography | |
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| The History of Nik Software | |
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| Index | |