Nik Dfine Photoshop Plug-in – Easy and effective noise reduction for superior image quality

Nik Dfine Photoshop and Lightroom 2 Plug-in offers digital photographers quick, easy and powerful control over noise reduction within an image.

Nik Dfine is an easy to use Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom 2 plug-in, and enables you to reduce noise in specific sections of an image, without any of the loss of detail, which is common with many noise reduction tools.

Nik Dfine incorporates revolutionary U Point Technology, which allows you to pinpoint exactly where you want to apply noise reduction, without affecting the rest of the image. Automatically manage layers and layer masks with the Brush Tool and quickly preview all of your results with Dfine’s user friendly interface.

Nik Dfine Photoshop Plug-in boasts numerous functions and features, including:

• Built-in U Point Technology allows you to pinpoint the specific areas of an image
• Three methods of selective noise reduction
• Control Points analyse the colour, tonality, detail and location of your selection
• Manage layers and layer masks using Photoshop or Photoshop Element's Brush Tool
• Easily incorporate and preview noise reduction in your workflow with Dfine’s resizable interface
• Supports Adobe Photoshop, Elements and Lightroom 2

U Point Technology Colour Control Points – Nik’s U Point Technology allows you to pinpoint the specific areas of a picture you wish to apply noise reduction to, without affecting the rest of the image.

Three methods of selective noise reduction – Apply noise reduction selectively in the way which best suits your workflow:-
Colour ranges – reduce noise within individual colour ranges. This method works best when applying selective noise reduction in a batch process.
Control Points – automatically isolate objects based on their unique characteristics. Control Points analyse the colour, tonality, detail and location of your selection, automatically determining where to apply certain affects. All Control Points within the active image communicate with each other, providing continuity of control over multiple objects throughout the image. Colour Noise or Contrast Noise Mask preview modes are available.
Selective Tool – Apply Dfine only where you want using Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Element's Brush Tool, automatically managing layers and layer masks.

User-friendly interface – Dfine’s resizable interface lets you easily incorporate noise reduction into your workflow and quickly preview the results.

Multilingual - User guides for Dfine software are available in English, French, German and Spanish.

System Requirements:

Windows:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional/XP/Vista
• Pentium III 1GHz or better
• 256MB RAM
• Adobe Photoshop 7 – CS3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 – 5.0 or Adobe Photoshop plug-in compatible application*

Macintosh:

• Macintosh OS 10.4 or later
• G4, G5, Intel Core Solo, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Xeon
• 256MB RAM
• Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 or Adobe Photoshop plug-in compatible application*; Apple Aperture 2.1 or later

* Nik Software product filters are developed to integrate seamlessly into popular image editing applications that support the Adobe plug-in architecture. Numerous software applications accept Adobe plug-in compatible filters – please consult your image editing application’s manual for compatibility and installation instructions for third party plug-ins. The Selective Tool is only compatible with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.