You can download a free 15-day trial to demo the software.

List Price: $199 (full version) $99 (upgrade). Both versions are 32-bit and 64-bit compatible. Macintosh users also get compatibility with Photoshop CS3 and Aperture 2 or later.

Silver Efex Pro 2 installs as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS5, or Photoshop Lightroom 2.6 or later on Windows systems. Silver Efex Pro 2 analyzes your image and adapts its adjustments accordingly to preserve and enhance details, enabling new features like Dynamic Brightness, which varies the amount of brightening adjustments in different areas of an image based on the surrounding tonal values, allowing you to easily boost levels in dark areas-without affecting highlights-by means of a simple slider control. Maybe the most impressive technology in this software is something you don’t see-the complex math that’s going on behind the scenes. There’s no masking involved-just drop a Control Point, set its effect radius, and use simple sliders to adjust brightness, contrast, detail and more. In addition to global enhancements, Silver Efex Pro 2 makes use of Nik Software’s innovative U Point technology to allow local adjustments using Control Points, perfect for tricks like opening up shadow areas without blowing out nearby highlights. Version 2 includes several improvements that allow more control over fine details, plus new tools to add image borders or bring back color in a specific area. For professional-strength black-and-white conversion made easy, it’s hard to beat Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro.

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