Nik Collection Tutorial - Part 3 - Viveza Photoshop and Lightroom

[@SkiRinkevicius]

I have use only llightroom and now I tied Nik Collection. Huge difference how accurate and fast you could put any corections on your image and make it pop out more then before. Thank you Ed for your tutorials awesome work from your side. Thumbs UP !!!

[@simonsharky3880]

I've been using Nik for a while but overlooked or forgot about some their important features. Thanks so much for opening my eyes! Looking forward to watching more on the other Nik plugins.

[@clearlyed]

+Geo Wu I am so happy I helped with my Nik collection tutorial. It's an amazing plugin however somewhat confusing so it's easy to miss certain things.

[@davet3530]

Good tutorial Ed - and quite comprehensive too. Thanks. Just to add to what Ed has explained - you can add neutral control points to areas of the image too. The idea being that it doesn't make any adjustments what so ever - they are very useful when doing selections like Ed was doing on the model, as you drop them into areas you don't want the adjustment of the selected area to effect. It helps to contain the selections to an area without any spill into other areas of the image.

[@Kody57]

Thanks Ed! With my short attention span I love your fast easy to follow instructions

[@marioboss79]

I saw a few another tutorial's for Nik and it was crap. Your's is so helpful !!! Thank Ed and keep working ;)

[@clearlyed]

+Mariusz Kłos I have been using the Nik collection for years and their tutorials are terrible and actually make the software seem harder to use and very complicated. I am trying to create the best Nik collection tutorials I can to show the real powers of the plight room and photoshop plugins.

[@sekhar9013]

+Photos In Color Ed, I bet you meant lightroom :P

[@rawckas]

+Photos In Color this is the first of your tutorials I have seen and it is great. east to follow, simple steps and also a bit of fun. thanks heaps

[@MikeKoPhotography]

Ed, thank you for the open as smart object tip! I've owned NIK package for long time but have given up on it because I could not "go back". Now I know this is possible. Keep up the fantastic work and will be using it, a lot! because it is a very powerful tool

[@yarinbar1]

this nik collection is so awesome!! thanks Ed! great video as always :)

[@clearlyed]

+Yarin Bar so happy you are enjoying the Nik Collection plugins. They are pretty awesome. Are you using it in Lightroom or photoshop?

[@yarinbar1]

i use it in lightroom. photoshop is too complicated for me :S which one do you prefer??

[@lucasfranck2310]

Ed, I'm from Brazil and I have to thank you for these tutorials you do! All the best!

[@clearlyed]

+Lucas Franck Hey all the way from brazil. Coming at you from Vegas. So happy my tutorials are helping you. the Nik Collection is a great plugins one you know how to use the Nik collection. Good luck and happy learning.

[@ponymoore6140]

Great tutorial on this amazing software. Keep them coming

[@lowliferider88]

Great show, I've been using NIK for the past year (All I wanted was silver efx) but watching your vid made me realize the true power of Nik plugins

[@DigitalLadySyd]

Nice tutorial Ed - I personally think that Viveza is the best plug-in ever made for PS. You can remove small distractions and match or change colors of even very small objects to blend into a background. If you run the Structure slider to the negative numbers, you can smooth out a choppy looking sky. And the thing I like best is that you can drive the eye to your focal point with all the control points. I always use this plug-in as one of the last steps in PS as it really pops the image just right! Again thanks for doing the tutorials!

[@bug470s]

Thanks for the tutorial. I honestly thought nik collection was going to just be a nice to have but using this to make different layer masks is just really easy. I have some split tone ideas and this actually helps out tremendously. Thanks again.

[@clearlyed]

+bug470s for sure the Nik collection is way more powerful than just a little basic editing plungin for Lightroom. My tutorials over the next few days will really show some of the powerful things you can achieve. Happy editing.

[@drakthamshraiba9608]

Fantastic tutorial and very helpful. .. I am starting to use Nik collection with photoshop. ... it is wonderful especially with masks. .. thank you my freind. ...

[@clearlyed]

+Aktham Shraiba the Nik collection pkugin for photoshop is really awesome I think. Especially with the layers feature. Awesome I think and so happy you enjoyed this tutorial. More coming tomorrow so stay tuned.

[@MiguelRozsas]

I already had the Nik software installed on my computer but I never used it with as a layer in PS ! Great tip !

[@clearlyed]

+Miguel Rozsas I know. I actually think that Nik collections tutorials on their site are pretty bad and unclear if it's capabilities. I am trying to make the best tutorial I can. Hope you are finding out new ways to use the Nik collection plugin for photoshop.

[@prabhakaran.prabhakaran4971]

its very useful even for the people like me, who have low knowledge in photoshop. tnk u.

[@MrBilgasem]

Thank you sooooooooo much for this unique video, I learned a lot from it about this new plugin, keep on with lessons about Nik collection ,it’s new for many.

[@nithinteja9887]

wat u have shown us is very very useful...thnkq very much!

[@DavideSansoni]

Fantastic tutorial Ed! :) I'm looking forward the next one :)

[@johnrasmussen3752]

Excellent !!!! Just what I needed thank you kind sir

[@clearlyed]

My pleasure.

[@jjjhackkk]

Wow! "Powerful" is a powerful word!Very informative video tutorial!I'm subscribing! :)

[@clearlyed]

+jjjhackkk SO happy you thought this tutorial was powerful.... or did i say it was powerful. either way I like the word powerful. I agree its powerful.

[@danielb2145]

Thanks, your videos are absolutely great. Keep up the good work.

[@PhantomRC1959]

I have to test it. Great explanation, Greg. Thx. 😊

[@clearlyed]

+Phantom RC hehehe Greg. My name is Ed but I like Greg too. It's a great plugin to play around with for sure. My favorites are coming over the next 3 days so stay tuned. Nik collection can be awesome I think.

[@PhantomRC1959]

+Photos In Color Sorry Ed, I mistyped your name. Meanwhile I tested the plug-in and posted the result (before & after) on your Facebook.

[@clearlyed]

+Phantom RC no worries. hehehehe. People often call me Greg. maybe it was my name in a past life. hahahaha. i will check it out of Facebook. for sure.

[@fernandomartelli1]

excellent tutorial! really easy to keep up. thanks!

[@crspy1075]

all your videos are fantastic! keep it up!

[@clearlyed]

+Cris de Guzman thank you so much for your kind words. it is people like you that really keep my working hard to make the best Nik Collection tutorials I can. Good luck and happy editing.

[@sekhar9013]

Ed, I have a video request. I have been a solely lightroom user for about an year now and started learning photoshop recently. And now nik collection, thanks to you. While I do see the power of these individual software, it is really confusing what to use for what as all the 3 can do most of the stuff with varying levels of difficulty and time consumption. I'm in a dilemma as to what my workflow should be. Of course we can always use more than one application to get the job done. But in that case, how do you go about it? I wish you would make a video on what you use for what and how your workflow would be with Lightroom, Photoshop and NIK collection(if possible) in the mix. I'm sure this video would be appreciated by many. Oh and as usual great video. You are the best :D

[@SoYouThinkYoureFunny]

Thanks for making these videos! Super helpful.

[@s3lkaleksander255]

Great job Ed..I just have to keep practising ..

[@clearlyed]

+S3lk Aleksander photo editing is just like a sport the more we practice the better we get. I think anyways. Happy you are enjoying my Nik collection tutorials.

[@zediogoamareleja]

Thanks for sharing your skills..Highly apreciated..Thumbs up

[@clearlyed]

thank you and happy you are enjoying learning about the nik collection from me.

[@HsupermanAdventures]

Love it ! The Scorpian dance

[@clearlyed]

+The Adventures of Hsuperman you should try the dance. But I wouldn't recommend being drug it hurts like crazy.

[@LaBlanca]

Great explaination! Thanx a load!

[@clearlyed]

+La Blanca No worries. my pleasure and hope you are enjoying lightroom nik collection

[@sumitagg1]

Great video Ed. Now that Lightroom has brushes, can't you achieve the same thing as with the control, points? Struggling to see what you get with nik other than HDR.

[@NativeEarthlingAI]

Top notch presentation

[@caneraydogan1154]

learning a lot from you, thanks

[@chriscollins4710]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@JumpingWatermelons]

Sweet! Thank you. I was wondering whether I should install on Photoshop or Lightroom or both, and what the difference is between using it in one or the other. I was hoping the edits could've been done to the Raw file in Lightroom, :-( , so now I see I should use it in Photoshop. As for the other Nik Collection parts, do the reasons to use Viveza in Photoshop apply for them as well?

[@jgoegl]

Thanks - very interesting and helpful

[@SudeshKatugampola]

That covers up the subject good. Thanks

[@az6281]

Thank you for this! Super cool video! A+++

[@sergeypilosyan]

Absolutely amazing! Thanks for this video!

[@simonamyot-bourgeois6982]

Is there a way to adjust the power of the control point and not only the radius. Like decide how close to the point tone the selection must be made. For example you could chose to select only tones that are very similar to your control point, or the opposite, be very generous and select tones not so similar as well?

[@clearlyed]

I have to be honest the I haven't used the NIK collection in some time and with ought playing around I wouldn't know the answer to this. I think i have just sucked and given the worst answers ever. i am so sorry about that. I'm not at my computer so can't have a play right now..

[@reillybt]

wow thanks that did help a lot for sharing

[@jacek_poplawski]

Viveza is great. I have idea for you: you can make multiple tutorials about color efex filters. Examples are on Nik channel.

[@TMan29]

Great Tutorial..... Thanks really helpful

[@JFW5358]

I've been experimenting with Viveza, Colour Efex and Silver Efex and it is ever so useful to come back to your tutorials after doing so to learn further refinements. Thanks. By the way, as you are clearly English, why Photos in Color and not Colour, as it is correctly spelled in English?

[@ericrojas2477]

Good Job, and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I could do without the victory lap at the start :)

[@clearlyed]

hahaha... I am just sometimes a little silly but I am happy you enjoyed learning how to use the nik collection.

[@rachiejean1]

Your tutorials are very helpful! :)

[@monwarahmed740]

really

[@michaeleicken3645]

Thank you very much Ed, even I did understand how it works, great job !!! ;-)

[@clearlyed]

+Michael Eicken happy you stil enjoyed watching this tutorial. Although you already knew how to use the nix collection it's always great to see how others are doing things.

[@BlueTorchWeddings]

These Tutorials are amazing - Thank you So much I'm a Subscriber - you've more than earned it my friend Thank you again

[@RS-Amsterdam]

Hi Ed, Sunburns in March, Scorpion bites, where are you located ??? Great tut, thanks for sharing. Those guys at NIK's knew/know their stuff

[@clearlyed]

+RS I know right. It's pretty crazy. I am based out of Las Vegas so nature can be pretty hostile. I really think the Nik Collection is pretty amazing. I just thing there tutorials if there own plugins are pretty bad and somewhat confusing. I hope mine are better.

[@RS-Amsterdam]

Yes your tuts are crystal clear like always. I use Niks for ages now but not all that frequent. Funny, I thought you were somewhere in England cause of your nice English accent.

[@teguhset1]

that really great man... thanks..

[@samuelgrau9609]

As usual I am greatly appreciative of your tutorials +. If you pardon my ignorance could you kindly inform me how and where to obtain the free Nik's downloads a mentioned in your comments.

[@paullivingston1009]

Great tutorial, thanks! I just subscribed. But I think I'm missing something here: can't I do the same thing with Lightroom's adjustment brush? It seems to me I can...only quicker and easier. What am I missing? Thanks again!

[@clearlyed]

+Paul Livingston You are correct that the adjustment brush in lightroom is awesome. That said with control points the nik collection allows you to make more sophisticated selections using their algorithm that uses color, tone and contrast to analyse the image. It just depends if you need it or not. Great for a few images but not for everything my opinion.

[@paullivingston1009]

+Photos In Color Understood. Methinks I should experiment with both on the same images to see the difference. Thanks for responding!

[@donna13445taylor]

Thank you so very much. Learned so much..

[@Spedyy785]

Really good.Thank you !! :D

[@clearlyed]

My pleasure and I happy you enjoyed learning about the Google Nik Collection.

[@mjfolkerts]

Instead of Shift clicking each point you can draw a box around them or Click and Shift Click in the list to the right. Easier way to make groups. I think CRTL or CMD G works just like making layer groups in Photoshop.

[@clearlyed]

+Michael Folkerts that is a very good point. I do this sometimes just forgot to mention it in the Nik collection tutorial. That's for the awesome tip though.

[@Signor_Mao]

Love your tutorial! :-) I have a question about Viveza; is it worth to use instead of making a selection with Color Range in photoshop and than make all the adjustments? It seems to work really similar. Thank you :)

[@jaydogg401]

Wow I like this!!

[@clearlyed]

Fantastic. This likes you too. hehehehe

[@WayneLeary]

Nice job!

[@clearlyed]

+Wayne Leary Thanks so much. thanks man. so happy you enjoyed my nik collection tutorial

[@ranchordas007]

How i use complete nik collection by right clicking on photo.every time i show only one plugin at a time.I want all of them at a time like yours.plz help me.

[@butchpouka]

hi Ed, i'm a bit confused why would we use this if we have ps or lr, in ps we can use adj layers and masks, and in lr the brush and the history is amazing, so what's missing that can be exclusively obtained by using vevesa

[@clearlyed]

The Nik collection is just a plugin that gives you different creative ways of editing your photos. I don't use it very much at all. that being said I know there are a lot of people out there that enjoy using them. Its up to you. I you don't see the point then honestly you are probably advanced enough to not seed these plugins.

[@butchpouka]

Photos In Color thank you so much, i learnt a lot from your tutorials specially the ones that deal with colors hues brightness they really made a difference 😊

[@joanacga2]

thanks!!! so usefull!!!

[@clearlyed]

+Antonio Acosta great. I am gdoing my best to make my Nik collection tutorials a clean and simple as possible. I have more coming so keep your eyes open.

[@karlcoppack5951]

Nice one!

[@clearlyed]

Thanks so much. Happy you enjoyed learning about the google nik collection.

[@LensArt43]

Job well done.

[@clearlyed]

+David S Poteet thank you so much. I live the Nik collection.

[@fadisg]

Hi Ed, A nice tutorials about Nik, but the most important question for me is how you evaluate your experience in using Nik ? I mean do you think its could be more useful ( or equal to ) than the other Lr tools like brush , graduated filters and radial filters ? do you believe as an experienced Lr user that Nik could offer more handy options and easier way to edit photos ? Thank you :)

[@clearlyed]

+Fadi Hammad I have been using he Nik Collection by Google on and off for years. There are elements that I love and others that I do not. Personally it is great for specific images but not for batch editing. I don't like that in Lightroom once the edit is done that is it and I don't like to round house through photoshop with every image. That said the HDR, analogue, dfine and silver fx are pretty amazing. Have I got masks is great too as this is not something you can do very well inside Lightroom. At first it can be confusing but once you have learned all the features it is pretty awesome.

[@fadisg]

+Photos In Color Thank you again:) So, what I can say after I read your reply that the Nik is worth to spend some time on it ? and the editing experience could be in the same quality( or very close ) of/to Lr ? Im right in that ?

[@mr_manoj00]

Bro can i install nik collection in cs6 32bit

[@DanielAmador-fl9vl]

Bro you are beast

[@chriscarroll5780]

Magic thank you

[@richardmauroricchiuti9350]

Fun...bring on #/Day/Part 4!

[@clearlyed]

+Zebrajellyfish.com LLC so happy you enjoyed this Nik collection tutorial. Tomorrow is going the be awesome. I am excited about it too. Good luck and happy editing.

[@meidydoang]

super!

[@TarekMahmud]

Thank you sir, this is so helpful for me.

[@clearlyed]

Happy my Nik Collection tutorials are helping you. Happy editing. +Tarek Mahmud

[@chriscarroll5780]

thank you

[@clearlyed]

my pleasure.. the NIK collection is awesome.

[@benedictlucena2963]

Amazing

[@clearlyed]

Thank you so much. happy my tutorials are helpful.

[@felipevasquez4866]

That snapchat thing makes me laugh everytime 😄

[@jlsc4125]

I guess I'm missing it. Looks like the same things I can do in Lightroom. Plus I have the grad capability which this doesn't appear to have.

[@clearlyed]

+jl sc It is similar however in someways less powerful but in any ways more powerful. The most important thing is the very cleaver masking and control points. It is a plugin to add onto lightroom not replace it. I hope this helped with you Nik Collection usage.

[@jlsc4125]

Photos In Color I can do masking with the lightroom brushes and tools. Really not worth the effort to bring in another app to do what I can already do in lightroom. Any more detail and its easier and more powerful to go to photoshop.

[@BigZ-il5hg]

gotta love that theme tone hahahaha

[@clearlyed]

+Big Z hahaha. I wrote it myself. But a long time ago. Happy you liked it. I like my dance more heheheh so silly. Hope you like my Nik collection tutorial too. More cramming all week so stay tuned.

[@BigZ-il5hg]

+Photos In Color i love your tutorial. they're awesome keep it coming

[@overmasw8797]

学习了。

[@richhughes2225]

Your scorpion dance was kind of stupid, but the tutorial was quite helpful. Thanks!

[@lykq]

how to download?

[@clearlyed]

I made a video all about this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZnEq2x-f7tnadE I also have videos on all the Nik Collection on my channel so be sure to check them all out.

[@jsal999999]

Was it just the scorpion, or have you recently been bitten by any other interesting creatures we need to know about? :-)

[@clearlyed]

Well, i have been stung by a number of scorpions actually. I also used to live in the jungle in Borneo and I got bit and stung by everyhthing you can ever imagine out here. hahaha. it doesn't bother me though. Hope you still learned from my nik collection tutorial.

[@musabal-harbi9880]

Thank God you stay alive 😜!

[@clearlyed]

+musab Al- Harbi hehehehe. I know right. This one wasn't too bad, the first time was wayyyyy worse. I wouldn't recommend it though. Hope you learned something bout Nik Collection. I will try and make them all before i get attached again. hehehehe

[@lowliferider88]

I'm just here to watch you dance,

[@CristiTomaPhotography]

Was it really so complex for this crappy software to select the skin tone? Photoshop does that for ages...

[@kearress7350]

ALWAYS choose Prophoto RGB!! Convert to sRGB when posting on the internet. The otherway around is totaly useless, you can NOT go from a small colorspace to a bigger colorspace!!

[@Naskeleng]

(Press F for full screen)

[@clearlyed]

+Thingy I really should have don that. oops. oh ell i still hope you liked my Nik Collection tutorial

[@Mr.HarryPotter]

Hi Ed: When working on Time-lapses, could I reduce noise of one image in DFine 2 then export back to Lightroom to sync all the rest of the images in the sequence to get effected and have less noise as the first one?kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioKZoIOZjLBgedE

[@joebarloggio5161]

Try using less "Okays". It gives the impression that we don't follow your instructions.

[@clearlyed]

Ok. hehehehehe.... only joking. I will do my best. Its strange teach people who are not there when I am in a room alone. I am learning though and will continue to try to improve. I hope you were still able to learn from my nik collection tutorial.

[@joebarloggio5161]

I think your tuts are very impressive and I've certainly learned heaps not only about Nik but Lightroom as well. As for the dancing. Well not my cuppa tea. But hey I dont care. Lots probably love it. Keep up the good work

[@OksOksanium]

The reason I disliked the video is that I would like to watch tutorial without "WOOOW, Loook at that! It's BeauUUUtiful!" bullshit.

[@clearlyed]

wow that is a beautiful comment. sorry you don't like people having a positive attitude. I am guessing you still watched the video and learned from it. sorry you felt the need to rate my free tutorial on a few excitable words i used. maybe there is a less positive youtber out there for you.

[@RobertWiggers]

You treat Lr like it's worthless and you are not spending any time on it like you show Nik in Ps.

[@clearlyed]

+Robert Wiggers thank you so much for you comment. I do actually point out how to access it in both Lightroom and photoshop. Essentially it works exactly the same in both Lightroom and photoshop. I believe I say that. The reason for using photoshop is to demonstration it in photoshop is to show the none destructive method in photoshop. Lightroom is pretty simple. Just 'edit in m' then 'save' out. That's it. There really is no reason to spend more time there. I will do one of the next tutorials in Lightroom though so you can see the process. Also my entire channel has been nearly completely dedicated to Lightroom. I think it is amazing and. Nik collection is awesome.

[@RobertWiggers]

Yeah I was to quick with commenting. My bad. I've got Nik yesterday and started to find tutotials. I've found yours first, watched it, and noticed you indeed show how to acces it in Lr, but nothing else. And Im a Lr person. I don't even have Ps installed. So that's the reason behind my comment. I shouldn't have reacted to harsh. Sorry :-)

[@clearlyed]

+Robert Wiggers Absolutely no worries dude. I am just trying to make the best tutorials I can as quickly as I can to help everyone out there learn the Nik collection. i looked at there tutorials and think they make it seem way to complicated. i just want to simplify and give the best tutorials I can. i hope you enjoy them over the next 5 days. ]

[@DavidBoyes]

Gibberish.

[@clearlyed]

+David Boyes Gibberish awesomeness. Gobbledygook that when deciphered can hold the key to some awesome photo editing. I hope you are able to decrypt this nik collection tutorial.

[@jaykanyi]

Your videos are too long because of too much repetition. Try shorten your videos to avoid loosing view. People have very short attention span

[@jaykanyi]

But good content

[@chanadrakant4587]

Maza nai aaya yar