Nik Software Ships Viveza 2 Photo Editing Plug-in

Nik Software just announced that Viveza 2, the latest upgrade to its photo editing software for selective color and light control is now available.

Thanks to Nik Software's U Point technology, you don't need to create complicated selections or layers when editing images, saving you a great amount of work. All you have to do is select areas of an image to adjust by simply pointing and clicking and then using mouse-controlled sliders to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, structure, shadows, red, green, blue, hue, and warmth in a fraction of the time needed by other tools.

"It's simply faster, easier, and more powerful than anything I've got in my own bag of tricks, which is why Viveza 2 is my new tool for making fast, accurate selections," said Scott Kelby, editor of Photoshop User magazine and author of The Digital Photography Book, Volumes 1-3. "This is a plug-in that every serious photographer has to consider, because now the rules have changed. After all these years, making accurate selections is still one area that gives even the pros fits, but Viveza 2 changes all that without the complexity and steep learning curve."

Features include:

• Powerful Color Control Points, enabling precise selective control of color and light
• New global image adjustments
• New and powerful levels and curves adjustments
• New shadow recovery—global or selective
• New fine detail structure enhancements
• Improved color rendering and increased precision of selections
• Improved timesaving user interface, including improved slider controls, slider favorites, multiple zoom states, keyboard nudging, grouped Color Control Points, and multiple undo levels
• Smart Filter support (Photoshop only)
• Selective Brush tool (Photoshop only)
• Multi-image support (Lightroom and Aperture only)
• New 64-bit support on Microsoft Windows

Viveza 2 works with Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Apple Aperture and is available from Nik Software or through specialty camera retailers for $199.95.

Registered customers that already own Viveza can upgrade for $99.95 at www.niksoftware.com/viveza. Customers who purchased Viveza after September 22, 2009 are eligible for a free upgrade to Viveza 2. Request your free upgrade by emailing supportus@niksoftware.com or call Customer Service at 888-284-4085.

To watch a video introduction of Viveza 2, learn more, and download a free trial version, visit www.niksoftware.com/viveza.