Another new feature of Viveza 3 is the one-click presets in the left sidebar. Here I’ve been able to lighten the center pot to match the tone and color of the pots either side.
Each Control Point has a button to display its mask, and you can use the new Chrominance and Luminance sliders to target the tones you want to adjust precisely. How does it work? Viveza 3 uses Control Points for local adjustments. The best way to think of Viveza is as the colour equivalent of the dodging and burning tools you might use in black and white.īut DxO says that Viveza is one of the collection’s most popular plug-ins and, along with Silver Efex Pro, has given it a big upgrade for the Nik Collection 4 release, adding in new presets, more advanced Control Point masking with Luminance and Chrominance sliders, and a new interface which shifts the local adjustments to the sidebar instead of having them attached to the Control Points themselves. This was always a bit of an odd addition to the Nik Collection in that it didn’t have any creative presets, just the same Control Point adjustments found throughout the Nik Collection suite. Viveza 3 is a major update of Viveza, the Nik Collection’s color adjustment plug-in.