Before & After Using Nik Collection’s Viveza

I recently purchased Viveza from the Nik Collection. (Formerly Nik Effects.) I’ve been loving how easy it is to dial in settings exactly the way I want. The preview is excellent. It’s quickly becoming the starting point (after basic Lightroom edits) for most of my post-processing.

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Before & After with Viveza

Below, you can see the preview window of edits in progress in Viveza. The image on the left is mostly Straight Out of Camera with slight adjustments in Lightroom for basic exposure. Note, I could have gotten this better in Lightroom, but sometimes you don’t see just how flat an image is until you start adding contrast!

Using Viveza

Below is an enlarged view of the settings. There is an option to use control points to target areas of the image, but for this image, I just did global settings of brightness, contrast, saturation, structure and I tweaked the curves a little bit to further dial in the contrast.

Settings for this image.

Here are larger views of the Before & After:

SOC image

After Viveza

Finally, I did a little selective burning and dodging with a burn/dodge overlay layer in Photoshop.

Final Touches