Nik Software is having a 4th of July sale, which runs through Sunday, July 8 at midnight. Their Complete Collection Ultimate Edition is on sale for $150 off (now $349.95), while the Complete Collection for Lightroom/Aperture is now just $224.95 (savings of $75).

I'm a big fan of Nik products, especially Silver Efex 2 Pro, which I use for all my black and white, and Viveza 2, which makes it incredibly easy to do the kind of selective color and light adjustments I previously needed to do using layer masking and time-consuming selections in Photoshop. Dfine and Color Efex are also great products.

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I am guessing that Nik Software is a plugin to lightroom?

Please excuse my ignorance but I only learned to use LR about a year and a half ago.
Even thos i been doing photography for years , I always been of the school of trying to get the photo right in camera, and until 4 years ago was a film and wet-lab guy. Came in to digital kicking and screaming

Not in Europe, it would seem - the Nik USA site won't let me enter my UK address. It would be fine if I lived in Vietnam, apparently.

Yeah, Nik has a full series of plugins for Lightroom, Aperture, and Photoshop. I believe the PS versions are different and maybe more expensive, but I don't think the function is all that different. The Aperture and LR versions are basically identical. I use Silver Efex Pro extensively for almost all of my B&W work and some of my muted color treatments as well. I also use Color Efex Pro and Viveza pretty often. I used to use Define a lot too, but I think the NR in current versions of LR may make that unnecessary.

Good stuff if you're not philosophically opposed to post processing.

-Ray

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Nik Software + PS and LR great combo they make all the difference

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Defiantly not philosophically opposed to post processing, just PP challenged
lol ... i was so good on the Dark Room but on the computer i get lost and its so easy to make mistakes , and most times corrections i try and make or things i do make it look worse
so apart from color saturation adjustment and exposure settings i don't do much

I wish they had a discount on individual modules. I just want one...

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(also, 6D + RX100)

I wish this was available in the UK, was keen to buy it but seems like in Europe we're getting screwed!

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