Nik Unveils Viveza 2 for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture

Nik Software's Viveza 2, a plug-in for selective color and light control, will be available in December the company announced on Thursday. Viveza 2 now features global adjustments and precise selective controls using Nik Software's U Point technology. Thanks to this technology, it is now easier than ever to make color and light adjustments in photos. In fact, most can be accomplished in just one step.

With Nik Software's U Point technology, you can select areas of an image to adjust by simply pointing and clicking and then using sliders to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, structure, red, green, blue, hue, and warmth in a fraction of the time needed by other tools.

Viveza 2 is supported in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Apple Aperture.

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 will be available via electronic and boxed delivery directly from Nik Software or through specialty camera retailers in December for $199.95. Current owners of Viveza can upgrade for $99.95. Customers who have purchased Viveza after September 22, 2009 will be eligible for a free upgrade to Viveza 2.

Watch a video introduction of Viveza 2 and sign up to be notified when the software is available by visiting www.niksoftware.com/viveza2.