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Content-Aware Grain

Started Nov 23, 2020 | Discussions thread
Tom Schum
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Re: Content-Aware Grain

Truman Prevatt wrote:

Silver Efex Pro is part of a collection, Nik Collection. The entire collection is $149.

Most of the collection is quite useful. If you like classic color film simulations - Analog Efex is to color what Silver Efex is to B&W. Color Efex is a very useful set of filters for editing and retouching color. Viveza is a highly precise color editor. Dfine is a very capable noise mitigation package that allows noise reduction without out softening the image. The sharpening image is quite capable and allows final sharpening for either electronic display of various sizes and resolution, and also printing with the printing sharping based on paper type, printer type and in inkjet, DPI, etc.

It's 149 for the package not just Silver Efex. It's a one time license.

https://nikcollection.dxo.com/25th-anniversary/

You can download a month trail.

https://nikcollection.dxo.com/download/

I downloaded the free trial (489mb), opened Silver Efex Pro 2.

Content-aware, but far different controls than the ones in Exposure X6.

I don't find the grain controls particularly friendly. In this example it looks like there is a lot of grain in the shadows and hardly any grain in the highlights, but the amount of grain does vary depending on the local luminance, so I think it actually is content-aware.

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