Average Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Total Number of Reviews: 4
Editorial Review: New Complete Collection for Apple Aperture offers all 5 of Nik Software’s award-winning plug-ins and provides solutions for every step of the photographic workflow with powerful, easy-to-use tools to extend Aperture’s photo management and editing.
NOT APERTURE 3 COMPLIANT 2 out of 5
I bought this because it looked good, price was good, and said it supported aperture 2.1 and higher... This does not support 64 bit aperture 3. Do not buy it unless you want to go backwards to the 32 bit world. I contacted Nik sofware as well. They wont take back the software and wont offer a free 64 bit upgrade. POOR Customer Support at Nik Software.
A really good LR add-on 5 out of 5
I'm using it with Lightroom and Vista. I haven't used all the pieces of the collection yet but I can say Viveeza is great. I had thought I could do what it does with the Lightroom supplied filters but it's impossible. An example: I traveled to Austria recently and the weather didn't cooperate - it was mainly overcast with snow or rain so pictures in the small towns are dull. With LR it's possible to adjust the exposure and use the gradient and brush tools to selectively edit different parts of the image. But it's non-discriminatory - the gradient tool adjusts very nicely from the edges but everything is adjusted equally. This is where Viveeza is so nice. Put a control point in a window box of geraniums, for example. Adjust the size of the circle and then adjust brightness, saturation, contrast and "structure". The reds of the geraniums pop because the grey or blue or white of the wall isn't affected. Brighten the walls the same way but maybe not so much. Go down the street and brighten each tree or put a point in the sky and pull the little bit of blue up from the overcast. It's like having a mask under thought control.
I've tinkered with the other parts of the collection but not enough to say anything about them other than they appear to be similarly powerful. I'm looking forward to learning how to use silver efex. A good thing to do is google for a coupon - just google on nik software coupon. You'll be pleasantly surprised. Mine was twenty five percent off.
Delivers more than it promises 5 out of 5
I had read several favorable reviews for some parts of this package (most notably from Ctein who I think walks on water). Yet the price really gave me pause. Also the learning curve. Nevertheless I finally bit the bullet. I slowly climbed the learning curve with a lot of help from Nik's excellent and free tutorials. (Did you hear that Adobe Photoshop? FREE TUTORIALS!)
I am glad that I did. Now I have more selective control over tonality, brightness, hue, etc. etc. than I ever dreamed was possible. I make subtle enhancements that never occurred to me before. Now I don't know how I would get along without this package.
Oh yes. Integration with Aperture is seamless and the the two complement each other. With Snow Leopard everything runs blazingly fast.
NIK Complete Collection 5 out of 5
I purchased this NIK software bundle for digital photo editing within Aperture 2, and it works wonderfully well. With Snow Leopard Apple OS it is amazingly fast. Nik has great web-based tutorials and seminars to show how to used the various programs. Tech support is great too. I highly recommended this bundled set.
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