Discount via Mu43 on Nik software coming.

I've always wanted to try out their Dfine noise reduction software.

Does their software work with RAW or jpeg only? I'm not terribly familiar with their products, but I have heard many good things about Dfine and thier Silver efex software.
 
Jason, you can use Nik's software on jpeg files, though I have only tried it with Silver Efex and Color Efex, I'm assuming that the others will work, as well. Naturally, one won't get as muc leeway with a jpeg file. I'd suggest reading about their software in detail here: Nik Software, Inc. | Welcome

All I can tell you is based on my personal experience. Don hounded me for months to get the software. Finally, they had a discount offer on the Complete Collection and I went for it. Never regretted it - only regretted waiting for so long!:rolleyes:

The way I look at software is that if I can spend money on a camera and lens/lenses...and not spend the money to get the best quality image output then I am wasting my funds on the camera in question.

I don't want this thread to get off into the pluses of different softwares from Aperture and Lightroom and Photoshop, etc., because we've got the Image Processing forum for those very worth while discussions - however, without good software I do not believe anyone is ever going to be able to achieve their own best.
 
Some good news - Amin and Alan R. over at mu-43 have arranged a sponsorship of that site by Nik Software. A 15% discount voucher will be announced soon. Check it out here: Nik Software announcement.

Thanks, Bill. It was all Alan. One day he presented the idea, and then a couple weeks later (after a lot of work on his part), he came back to me and Nic (Luckypenguin) with the great news.

I'm really excited for the contests. A Nik software package per month is a great prize to be able to give away!
 
Jason, just to quickly answer your questions. These programmes don't work on RAW but you can export the RAW files as TIFFs. NIK DFine is good but I'm not convinced it is better than other NR packages. The only real advantage is the localised application of NR through the U-point technology.

All NIK products I've used are excellent, but they aren't cheap.
 
Right, I guess I was thinking that what I do is turn my RAW files into DNG while importing to Lightroom, then Nik turns them into Tiffs...which I then export as jpegs or upload via Lightroom to Flicker, where again they turn into jpeg files. I did, however, do some editing on some of my daughter's jpegs recently...and have improved some old jpegs of my own via the Nik software. I rarely have used Define. I have yet to try Viveza, though I know I should.... I am very seat of the pants and intuitive in my approach, but I do enjoy the products very much and have found that for me it was worth the expense.
 
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