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Il famoso e pluri-premiato software per la manipolazione zonale dei parametri colore delle immagini arriva alla sua seconda revisione. Nik Software ha appena presentato la nuova release di Viveza per Photoshop, Lightroom ed Apple Aperture; tra le caratteristiche inedite, una funzione di controllo globale del colore e della luminosità che permette, in un solo step, di modificare i relativi parametri dell'immagine. Già acquistabile e scaricabile, per le piattaforme Windows e Mac, Viveza 2.0 è venduto ad un prezzo di 199,00 dollari USA (99,95 USD aggiornamento da versione precedente).

Link. Nik Software, pagina ufficiale

Press release ufficiale
New York, NY – October 22, 2009 – Nik Software announces today Viveza 2, an upgrade to its award winning and revolutionary plug-in for selective color and light control. Available in December, Viveza 2 now offers users robust global adjustments and precise selective controls that utilize Nik Software’s award-winning U Point® technology. Viveza 2 eliminates the need to create complicated*selections or layer masks and provides a powerful solution for users looking to save time and effort when editing images. “New global image controls added to Viveza’s powerful selective editing capabilities now enable users to quickly and easily perform virtually all of their color and light adjustments within a single step,” said Michael J. Slater president and CEO of Nik Software. “New features such as shadow recovery, structure control, increased precision of selections, and user interface improvements together give users ultimate control, enabling truly spectacular results.”

Viveza 2, powered by Nik Software’s patented U Point technology, is the most powerful and precise tool available to globally and selectively control light and color in photographs. With U Point technology, users can quickly select areas of an image to adjust by pointing and clicking and then using simple to use sliders to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, structure, red, green, blue, hue, and warmth in a fraction of the time needed by other tools.

Key features of Viveza 2 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

Pricing and Availability
Nik Software’s Viveza 2, offering support for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Apple Aperture, will be available via electronic and boxed delivery directly from Nik Software (www.niksoftware.com) or through specialty camera retailers.

Viveza 2 retails for $199.95. Customers that already own 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.