{"id":4451,"date":"2014-09-12T09:54:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T09:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2014-09-12T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T09:54:31","slug":"google-nik-efex-guide-3-viveza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/google-nik-efex-guide-3-viveza","title":{"rendered":"GOOGLE NIK EFEX Guide \u2013 3 Viveza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NIK EFEX VIVEZA &#8211; it&#8217;s just curves, right?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viv-2.jpg\" alt=\"viv 2\" width=\"260\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viv-2.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viv-2-91x300.jpg 91w, https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viv-2-15x50.jpg 15w, https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viv-2-50x164.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>NIK EFEX Viveza is, on the surface, a very simple NIK EFEX plugin, and when compared to Silver EFEX, it looks trivial!<\/p>\n<p>But with its 4 sliders and curves control, it is extremely powerful!<\/p>\n<p>Add to that the ability to create\u00a0as many &#8220;control points&#8221; as you like, you can get very selective with your editing &#8211; for example, add a NIK EFEX control point to your sky and make it dark and brooding. Or maybe add a control point to a stream and make it very textured and high contrast&#8230; This is all do-able in Nik EFEX Viveza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-youtube su-u-responsive-media-yes\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/awpNmN9IwiY?autohide=2&amp;autoplay=0&amp;mute=0&amp;controls=1&amp;fs=1&amp;loop=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;theme=dark&amp;wmode=&amp;playsinline=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture\" title=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Landscape in Viveza<\/h2>\n<p>In this video we show how we used viveza to boost a flat-light landscape scene. It takes you through both the generic settings, which affect all the scene, and how to add and use control points. Here we lighten a river and make a sky more dramatic.<\/p>\n<h2>The Next Step<\/h2>\n<p>After\u00a0Viveza, your options are thrown wide open with the 3 major effects in the NIK suite<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SILVER EFEX &#8211; the best black and white option available<\/li>\n<li>ANALOG EFEX &#8211; accurately simulate film cameras &#8211; you can spend hours tweaking and playing with sliders, it&#8217;s very addictive<\/li>\n<li>COLOR EFEX &#8211; wide range of colour plugins, including dramatic Bleach Bypass, contrast, high key, indian summer&#8230; AND stack several filters on top of each other for amazing &#8220;recipes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIK EFEX VIVEZA &#8211; it&#8217;s just curves, right? NIK EFEX Viveza is, on the surface, a very simple NIK EFEX plugin, and when compared to Silver EFEX, it looks trivial! But with its 4 sliders and curves control, it is extremely powerful! Add to that the ability to create\u00a0as many &#8220;control points&#8221; as you like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_22977785_22977785":"","facebook_10157410341118549_123005067715685":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,54,9,14,30,311],"tags":[327,324,323,326,325,328],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-lightroom","category-photography","category-tips","category-training","category-video-tutorials","tag-nik-color-efex-pro-3","tag-nik-color-efex-pro-3-0","tag-nik-efex-pro","tag-nik-efex-pro-4","tag-nik-silver-efex-pro-2","tag-nik-viveza"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viveza.jpg",1000,563,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viveza-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viveza-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viveza.jpg",1000,563,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viveza.jpg",1000,563,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viveza.jpg",1000,563,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/viveza.jpg",1000,563,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"McFade","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"NIK EFEX VIVEZA &#8211; it&#8217;s just curves, right? 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