If you would like to be in charge of whether the detail extractor filter focuses on texture or only larger objects, just change the Effect Radius drop down option. The Contrast slider controls the overall contrast in your image while the Saturation slider adjusts the color vibrancy in your image. It defaults to 25% which usually is enough. The Detail Extractor slider works by brightening the shadows and darkening the highlights while exaggerating details. This filter does a fantastic job of bringing forth details that are already in the image to begin with, but not visible. I have gathered 5 of the best and most powerful Nik Color Efex Pro 4 filters and how to use them to create fantastic photos. I hope you like the photos and video and have a great weekend.How do you know which filter in Nik Color Efex Pro 4 you should use for processing your photos? With a total of 55 filters in Color Efex Pro 4, there is a lot of filters to explore. If you have subscribed, it will land in your email inbox sometime on Saturday. When it’s published you can read it here ( ) along with past issued. I also wanted to mention that Lenscraft in Focus comes out this weekend. If you want to see how I took the shot and edited the image, it’s in this YouTube video that I’ve just released ( ). It’s not something I do a lot but it’s interesting how it can produce a different feel. I then used the Transform Perspective command and Liquify Filter to change the perspective, enlarging the foreground. The tripod leg was easy to fix in Photoshop using Content Aware Fill. Unfortunately, even though I had the camera only a couple of feet from the subject the wide-angle killed a lot of the impact as well as capturing the tripod leg in the corner of the frame. My idea was to get close and fill the frame with the rock and heather as the main subject pointing to the distant water. You see switching to the vertical orientation with an extreme wide-angle lens made it difficult to get close enough to the foreground. You may have your favourite out of the two, but I should tell you, not everything is as it seems in this second shot. Tripod mounted exposure of 1/28” at f/13.0 and ISO160. View 2 of Coniston Water from Tom Heights.

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