Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 released

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Nik has updated Silver Efex Pro, its black and white conversion plug-in for Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture, to version 2.0. New features include a History Browser and several new tools for controlling contrast and tonality.http://www.robgalbraith.com/imgs/blank.gifhttp://www.robgalbraith.com/imgs/blank.gifhttp://www.robgalbraith.com/imgs/blank.gifhttp://www.talkphotography.co.uk/data/1/rec_imgs/1646_noise_ninja_728x90v2.gif (http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/ad_link.asp?ads_id=37)http://www.robgalbraith.com/imgs/blank.gifhttp://www.robgalbraith.com/imgs/blank.gifhttp://www.robgalbraith.com/imgs/blank.gif

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[swanseamale47]

I'd be interested to see a proper unbiased comparrison.

[swanseamale47]

I hear there are problems reported including slow loading and crashing photoshop.

[Planet Penwith]

I hear there are problems reported including slow loading and crashing photoshop.


That's what happened to me when I got it...annoyed me

[Glidergoth]

I'm loathe to splash out on V2 (although history sounds very useful) as all the Nik plug-ins crash PS CS5 when I upgraded from 32bit XP to 64bit Windows7. And yes, I did download the supposedly "64 bit" versions of the Nik software. They work fine with LR3 64bit but it seems to be the selective tool crashing PS which is a pain as I have to use the Nik filter in LR3 then save this 'layer' as a separate image and bring it manually into PS. Pain in the proverbial.

[onona]

WTF. So I went to Nik's website, and attempted to purchase the upgrade (as I already have the first Silver Efex plugin for Aperture), but once I reached the personal details page, I discovered that the United Kingdom is not listed on their country drop-down list, so I was unable to complete the transaction.

[edit]
Aaah, you can select United Kingdom from a drop-down list on their home page. This inexplicably takes you to their German site, but I was able to complete the transaction there. Looking forward to trying out the new features!

[Dervish99]

Have been using it since it's release, it is much better than V1, but suffers from being slow, and 50% of the time it imports the image but appears to be out of focus, this does not correct itself until it exports the final image back to PS.