Learn one Nik Filter a week

55 Filters in 52 Weeks

What a great way to add to your knowledge, every week watch one of these videos showing how to use the Nik filters, very good!

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Digital Techniques

Processing With Nik’s Bi Color User Defined (Video) with Mike Moats Here is another ‘creative’ Macro video by Mike Moats. Taking the Bi-Color User Defined filter in Color Efex Pro 4, he was able to transform a Macro photo into something special. Get outside the box this week and try something new. You might be pleasantly surprised! 

Digital Techniques

Solarization Filter in Nik Software (Video) with Mike Moats Michigan area photographer and instructor, Mike Moats, shows off his special technique on using the Solarization Filter in Color Efex Pro 4. Mike’s video will open your eyes to the possibility of using this creative filter effect on your own images.