1. Highlight the image that you wish to enhance with Viveza.
2. Click the Images menu.
3. Roll over the Edit With sub-menu.
   A popup menu appears.
4. Select Viveza... from the popup.

Viveza enables you to easily selectively enhance the color and light of your photograph to match the desired relationship of objects throughout the image, all without complicated selections or layer masks. Viveza’s Color Control Points enable you to directly enhance objects, applying different light and color changes to each object.

In contrast, Color Efex Pro 3.0 is designed to let you apply traditional and stylizing photographic filters on your image one at a time after the image has the proper relationship of light and color throughout each object. Control Points in Color Efex Pro 3.0 enable you to determine how much of the specific filter’s effect to apply to an object or area.

Viveza can be used as the second step following noise reduction with Dfine 2.0. Color Efex Pro 3.0 can be used before and or after using Viveza depending on your own personal workflow. Sharpening with Nik Sharpener Pro 2.0 should be used as a final step before printing.

While it is possible to use Viveza in a Batch process, it isn’t recommended. Control Points are location specific, so when an Action is created, the Control Point will always be placed in the same exact position. Apart from still life or landscape shots created using a tripod, the location of objects within most images change from one to the next which prevents the same effect from being applied to all of the images in a batch.

Yes, Viveza is Smart Filter compatible in Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 as the host application. To use Viveza as a Smart Filter, please follow the instructions below:

1. Open your image in Photoshop CS3
2. Select the layer to apply Viveza to.
3. Click on Filter > Convert for Smart Filter, and the layer is converted to a smart filter.
4. Click on Filter > Nik Software >Viveza to open up the Viveza interface.  From here you can apply the desired Control Points.

Viveza now functions as a Smart Filter and allows you to go back and edit the Control Points effect applied to the image as long as that file is saved as a PSD or TIFF file with the layers retained.

To prevent the Nik Selective Tool from opening automatically each time Photoshop is launched, when launching Photoshop, do the following:

1. Have the Nik Selective Tool open. If you closed the Nik Selective Tool, you can reopen it by clicking on File >Automate >Nik Selective Tool and the tool will be reopened.
   
2. Click the Settings button located on the bottom of the Selective Tool window.
3. In the Selective Tool Settings dialog, go down to ‘When Photoshop launches:’ and click the pull down box next to it and choose the ‘do not automatically open the Selective Tool’ setting. The Nik Selective Tool will no longer open automatically.

By using the Nik Selective Tool, you can apply Viveza to your images selectively using a paint brush. While Viveza is selective in nature, sometimes adjusting the effect with a brush is a necessary additional step to get the right end result.

The Nik Selective Tool can be opened by clicking on File> Automate via the menu bar in Photoshop (File > Automation Tools in Photoshop Elements). After opening the Nik Selective Tool you are able to access the Viveza interface where you click the Viveza button and bringing up its interface for the active image.

• Paint – Select this editing function to begin selectively applying the current filter effect to the image. After selecting this button, paint the effect using the Photoshop paintbrush into the image, using varying opacities or levels of pressure (when using a pressure sensitive input device) to control the amount of the effect as it is being painted into the image.
  
  
• Erase – Select this editing function to selectively remove the current filter effect from the image. After filling the image (by pressing the [Fill] button), select the [Erase] button, paint the effect out of the image, using varying opacities or levels of pressure (when using a pressure sensitive input device) to control the amount of the effect as it is being removed from the image. This tool is only available after selecting a filter that has been applied to the image.
  
  
• Fill – Select this editing function to add the current filter effect onto the entire image.
  
  
• Clear – Select this editing function to remove the current filter effect from the entire image. This tool is only available after selecting a filter that has been applied to the image.

Once you have completed editing your image, click on the Apply button to apply Viveza to the image, allowing you to proceed to further edit your image in Photoshop. Alternatively you may click on the Discard button and cancel the current filter enhancement and start over again.

For the Macintosh users:

1. Insert the CD or mount the downloaded DMG file.
2. Run the uninstaller application.

For the Windows users:

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When using Viveza as an external editor for Lightroom, Viveza can support JPEG and TIFF files*.

*Viveza only supports TIFF files in 8 or 16-bit with no compression or LZW compression.

Viveza can also be manually added as an external editor providing easy access to edit your photos in Viveza. Follow the steps below to manually add Viveza as an external editor.

1. Open the Preferences in Lightroom.


2. Click the External Editing tab.


3. In the Additional External Editor section select a desired File Format, Color Space, Bit Depth, Resolution, and Compression.
   
   Note: Viveza is only compatible with TIFF files (8 or 16-bit, with no compression or LZW compression).


4. Click on Choose to select an application. Navigate to the location of Viveza.
   
   
   On Windows, the default installation location for Viveza will be:
   
   
   C:\Program Files\Nik Software\Viveza for Lightroom
   
   On Macintosh, the default installation location for Viveza will be:
   
   
   Macintosh HD : Applications : Nik Software : Viveza for Lightroom


5. Select the Viveza file and click Choose.


6. Under the Preset drop-down menu, select Save Current Settings as New Preset… and name the preset.

After Viveza has been added to Lightroom as an external editor, it can be accessed under the Photo > Edit In… menu. Follow the steps below to access Viveza.

1. Highlight the image(s) that you wish to enhance with Viveza.


2. Click the Photo menu.


3. Roll over the Edit In sub-menu. A popup menu appears.


4. Select Viveza from the popup.


5. After selecting Viveza, select whether to Edit Original, Edit a Copy, or Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments.
   
   Note: If Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments is selected, the Copy File Options must be determined as well. Select the File Format, Color Space, Bit Depth, Resolution and Compression for the new file to be edited in Viveza*.
   
   *Viveza is only compatible with TIFF and JPEG files (8 or 16- bit with no compression or LZW compression).


6. Click Edit and the Viveza interface appears, displaying the image(s) specified in Step 1 above.