Now offers a complete range of new and powerful selective and global adjustments for fast and efficient photo editing
New York, NY (PhotoPlus Expo Booth #766) — 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
