[frank]

I have just purchased a copy of Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 for Capture NX2. I like it since it has a lot of nice filters designed for use with NX2. However, I encountered a problem when I tried the B/W conversion filter: The default conversion always resulted a too dark image. If you check the histogram, you will see that the shadow is always clipped too much, while there is a large blanck area in the high light end. In other words, the b/w image looks as if it is highly underexposed. I know that there is a way to fix it: just move the "Protect Shadows" slider to the right (often quite large amount is needed) to recover the shadow details (moving the Brightness slider to the right cannot recover shadow details, it simply makes the image brighter). This can be very boring if I need to do it for every b/w conversion. My question is: is this a common problem? Or did I do something wrong?



In this regards the B&W converter within the NX2 is better: it just sometimes clipps both shadows and high lights which can often be fixed by moving the contrast slider to the right; and it does not clip that much shadows as the Color Efex 3.0 b/w converter does. However, I don't like its color filter: the color filter of the B&W converter in NX2 is just not strong enough and is sometimes not very accurate.



Comments and responses are welcome.



Frank