HDR Efex Pro

X-Rite just announced two free March webinars for both professional and serious amateur photographers. The webinars will help photographers gain confidence and learn easy and powerful ways to enhance their color workflow.

"The month of March brings photographers some exciting and creative new X-Rite Photo webinars," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president, X-Rite Photo Marketing. "From exploring both basic and advanced image editing techniques to participating in a rare opportunity to learn how to improve their digital workflow from photographer and gifted educator Katrin Eismann, there is something for everyone in X-Rite’s monthly webinar series."

March Webinar Schedule:

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT and 1:00 PM EDT
Image Edits and Enhancements in Lightroom 4

Adobe's new Lightroom 4 offers new options for editing and output that make this a must-have upgrade for Lightroom users. In this free webinar sponsored by X-Rite, Joe Brady will explore both basic and advanced image editing techniques. During this session, he'll focus on the new editing capabilities offered in this upgrade - in future sessions, Joe will explore the new modules and Lightroom file organization.Read more

October is here, which means X-Rite has a brand new schedule of free webinars for professional and serious amateur photographers. Four topics are featured this month, all which will help photographers gain new confidence and to learn quick, easy and powerful ways to enhance their color workflow. They are: One Step Beyond Amazing hosted by Jane Conner-Ziser, Improve your Color Management Skills, Part 2, RAW COLOR POWER with the ColorChecker Passport, and Stop Guessing - Start Knowing! Accurate Monitor Color with X-Rite.

"Consistent, accurate color management remains an important building block for photographers seeking professional looking images," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president, X-Rite Photo Marketing. "In October, our free educational webinars will again teach interested photographers how X-Rite’s line of color management tools can bring their digital photography color to new levels. Also this month we are pleased to feature two new webinars – one hosted by professional photographer Jane Conner-Ziser and co-sponsored by Nik Software as well as the second webinar in a three part series to improve color management skills. These brand-new webinars will outline workflow ideas designed to transform even ordinary photos into extraordinary images." Read more

Photographers looking for insights and tips on how to achieve color control, consistency and creativity in their workflow should sit in on the free webinars offered this month from X-Rite. Five free Webinar topics are covered in September and webinar attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions to the live trainers.

Consistent, accurate color management remains an important building block for photographers seeking professional looking images," said Mark Rezzonico, vice president, X-Rite Photo Marketing. "In September, our free educational webinars will again teach interested photographers how X-Rite's line of color management tools can bring their digital photography color to new levels. Also this month we are pleased to feature two new webinars – one hosted by professional photographer Jim DiVitale and co-sponsored by Nik Software as well as the first webinar in a three part series to improving color management skills. These brand-new webinars will outline workflow ideas designed to transform even ordinary photos into extraordinary images." Read more

Nik Software today announced a new High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging solution for photographers. HDR Efex Pro is packed full of best-in-class technologies, including single-click visual style presets, global adjustments such as exposure, contrast, structure to fine detail contrast, and a new HDR Method option. This feature uses four tone-mapping algorithms, for practically unlimited HDR "looks."

HDR Efex Pro also includes Nik Software's U Point technology for fine-tuning images without layer masks, allowing photographers to control selective adjustments with just a mouse-click. Finishing adjustments, such as vignette controls and levels & curves are also included.

Features:

• Intuitive interface, with easy to understand photographic terminology and the actual processed results always displayed
• U Point powered selective tools for fast, precise enhancements of contrast, shadow, structure, saturation adjustments, and more
• Multiple proprietary tone mapping algorithms enabling a wide range of HDR styles
• Visual presets that produce amazing results in a single-click
• Ability to create the HDR look from a single exposure
• Advanced technology for automatic image alignment and reduction of subject motion artifacts known as "ghosts"
• All-in-one 32-bit color workflow enabling the creation of professional HDR images