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<blockquote data-quote="T-Man" data-source="post: 323881" data-attributes="member: 22038"><p>Actually, that's not entirely true. The NIK plug-ins have a feature called "control points" that allow you do do more precise detailed adjustments to brightness, contrast, structure (fine detail), etc to only a select portion of the image without globally affecting the remainder of the image. Its noise reduction and sharpening is also far superior to what LR offers, and in my opinion, it ain't even close, as you can tailor the sharpening to the type of output you intend, whether printed or display, along with compensating for the expected viewing distance. I've compared the results using NIK vs. LR, and I noticed an improvement with the NIK sharpener and Dfine noise reduction. The whole NIK suite also includes tons of filter effects, vignetting effects, and interesting B&W effects that would be very difficult, if not impossible to duplicate in LR. Or at least, I see no way of duplicating them in LR. Silver Efex Pro allows you do do things with B&W photography that you absolutely cannot do in LR, if you do a lot of B&W. But, you're correct that the NIK stuff does duplicate much of what you can do in LR. I bought the whole collection solely for its excellent sharpening and noise reduction plug-ins alone; the rest of the collection was just a bonus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="T-Man, post: 323881, member: 22038"] Actually, that's not entirely true. The NIK plug-ins have a feature called "control points" that allow you do do more precise detailed adjustments to brightness, contrast, structure (fine detail), etc to only a select portion of the image without globally affecting the remainder of the image. Its noise reduction and sharpening is also far superior to what LR offers, and in my opinion, it ain't even close, as you can tailor the sharpening to the type of output you intend, whether printed or display, along with compensating for the expected viewing distance. I've compared the results using NIK vs. LR, and I noticed an improvement with the NIK sharpener and Dfine noise reduction. The whole NIK suite also includes tons of filter effects, vignetting effects, and interesting B&W effects that would be very difficult, if not impossible to duplicate in LR. Or at least, I see no way of duplicating them in LR. Silver Efex Pro allows you do do things with B&W photography that you absolutely cannot do in LR, if you do a lot of B&W. But, you're correct that the NIK stuff does duplicate much of what you can do in LR. I bought the whole collection solely for its excellent sharpening and noise reduction plug-ins alone; the rest of the collection was just a bonus. [/QUOTE]
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