Silver Efex Pro 2

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Complete Control for Black & White

Discover the beauty of black and white photography with Silver Efex Pro 2, the world's leading solution for creating stunning images. Silver Efex Pro 2 offers a powerful set of darkroom-inspired features, including the revolutionary U Point technology that enables you to fine-tune your images with precise selective enhancements.

What's new in Silver Efex Pro 2?

Intuitive History Browser

The new History Browser enables you to explore all of the features in Silver Efex Pro 2 with the freedom to try different looks, undo adjustments at any time, and compare different edited history states of your image.

Freedom to experiment.

Silver Efex Pro 2 gives you the ultimate in flexibility to experiment with the always-on History Browser. Step backward through any of the adjustments you've made on your image by simply clicking on a previous state.

Compare enhancements.

Using the unique History State Selector, you can compare the current enhancements to any other state in the History Browser. This makes it possible to experiment with different enhancements and then compare the different states either in full view, side-by-side view, or split-view.

Structure and Fine Structure

Typical contrast adjustments enhance lights and darks along edges. Introduced in the firstversion of Silver Efex Pro, our innovative Structure control works more precisely "between"the edges to enhance images, often working in concert wtih contrast.

We've gone further still in Silver Efex Pro 2. The new Fine Structure control brings out even more visible detail in the smallest structures, details, and textures of an image without creating an over-sharpened look.

Soft Contrast

Conventional contrast darkens and lightens details in a very straightforward yet unsophisticated manner, often producing images that are harsher than intended. Soft Contrast, however, adds contrast to an image by applying contrast to different areas of the image in a dynamic way. By intelligently adapting contrast to image details, Soft Contrast achieves a softer mood or feeling in the photograph.

Multi-Threaded, 64-bit, GPU Processing

Silver Efex Pro 2 takes full advantage of the latest system hardware chipsets and acceleration found in advanced displays, saving you time and effort with lightning fast, efficient processing.

Dynamic Brightness

Intelligently adjust brightness in your images using the new Dynamic Brightness control. This unique new tool adapts the brightness effect to existing tonalities in an image, creating spectacular results.

Intelligent brightness adjustments.

Dynamic Brightness ensures that different areas of your image receive different brightening adjustments, based on tonal values of each area. By moving one slider, dark areas get brighter all without affecting lighter objects in your image and vice-versa. Dynamic Brightness even adjusts brightness independently for each dark area by easily applying adjustments precisely to the level desired. You save time and produce superior results because Silver Efex Pro 2 simply works smarter.

Natural Image Borders

Silver Efex Pro 2 contains an entirely new set of intelligent algorithms that incorporate organic elements to create unique, natural, and random image borders. This is a modern interpretation on classic darkroom borders and offers virtually infinite possibilities.

Fully customizable borders.

Photographers have often looked to digital photographic borders as the finishing touches to their masterpiece, yet have fallen short because many image borders are either too smooth, artificial, or they all have the same appearance. This results in a look that is unnatural and unlike what was achievable in the darkroom.

The natural image borders in Silver Efex Pro 2 blend organic elements with a unique randomizing algorithm to produce beautiful, natural-looking, and scalable borders. Borders can be repeated or randomized, providing enough variation to ensure that your images don't look the same. The result is amazing.

Specially Developed Algorithms

Achieve incredible results faster than ever with never-before-seen advancements in black and white controls such as Dynamic Brightness, Fine Structure, Soft Contrast, Amplify Whites, Amplify Blacks, and our legendary Grain Engine.

Advanced intelligence.

The imaging science and technology behind Silver Efex Pro 2 has been developed so that each part works intelligently together with others for the best results possible. Rather than algorithms working only in isolation, each algorithm intelligently changes contrast relationships between colors and other related algorithms as you adjust them.

The end results speak for themselves: predictable high quality output from a set of algorithms that are combined in revolutionary ways and prevent the introduction of artifacts in the image with no effort on your part.

Amplify Blacks and Whites

Accentuate blacks and whites in your image for greater impact by increasing the presence of highlights and shadows adaptively throughout the image. Unique contrast effects are easily achieved without blocking up darker areas of an image or blowing out lighter ones.

Taken together these tools provide yet another powerful set of controls for creating black and white masterpieces.

Selective Color

Selective color toning has long been a favorite technique of fine art and portrait photographers. The new selective color tool enables you to quickly and easily add color elements back into your photograph utilizing U Point technology to precisely select objects without creating complicated selections or layer masks.

Bring back color.

Once you have your image adjusted to a perfect monochromatic look, U Point powered control points let you easily bring back color to precise selections. Simply click on the object or area to adjust and a new Selective Color slider appears, enabling you to bring back as much or as little color as you like.