Nik Silver Efex Pro is an easy to use plug-in for Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom 2 and Aperture that allows you to produce professional black and white images by combining traditional dark room effects with the convenience of a digital workflow.

Nik Silver Efex Pro features award winning U Point technology, which enables you to selectively apply adjustments to specific areas of an image without affecting the overall appearance. A state-of-the-art grain engine accurately produces a traditional black and white look in your digital photographs by recreating your images from grain and mimicking the traditional silver halide process.

Nik Silver Efex Pro allows you to recreate 18 of the most popular black and white film types, enhance images with a choice of 20 presets or create your own styles for unique results.

Features:

• U Point Technology – U Point powered control points enable you to selectively control the tonality and contrast of an image using convenient sliders. Award winning U Point Technology gives you the ultimate control to apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selectors.
• State-of-the-art grain engine – Accurately recreate a traditional black and white look in your digital photographs. Unlike other methods which merely overlay a grain pattern over your image, Silver Efex Pro recreates your image from grain, mimicking the traditional silver halide process.
• Black and white film emulation – Recreate the look of 18 of the most popular black and white film types, including the grain, colour sensitivity and tone curve for each.
• Advanced stylising – Enhance your images with a choice of 20 preset styles, including tints, toners and vignette effects, or create your own presets.
• Powerful selective tool* – Brush filter effects into your image using any brush tool available in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Layers and layer masks are created automatically, enabling you to quickly and easily apply enhancements to precise areas in your image.
• Smart filter compatibility* –Fine tune black and white images even after effects have been applied
• Multi-image support** – Work on multiple images at once in Aperture. When more than one image is opened 'previous' and 'next' buttons appear, allowing users to easily copy and paste settings between images and maintain consistency.
• Multilingual – User guides for Silver Efex Pro software are available in English, French, German and Spanish

* Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements only
** Apple Aperture only

Please note: Silver Efex Pro will not work on images in greyscale mode.

System Requirements:

Windows:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional/XP/Vista
• Pentium III 1 GHz or better
• 512MB RAM
• Adobe Photoshop 7 - CS3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 - 6.0 or Adobe Photoshop plug-in compatible application*

Macintosh:

• Macintosh 10.4 or later
• G4, G5, Intel Core Solo, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Xeon
• 512MB RAM
• Adobe Photoshop CS2 - CS3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and 6.0 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.