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With its adaptive sharpening algorithms and award-winning U Point®technology for selective sharpening, Sharpener Pro helps you easily achieve sharpness or creative softening of details. The Sharpening Soft Proof that lets you accurately inspect results before printing saving money in costly test prints, improved handling of new output devices, and new output presets provide repeatable, professional results.

Use Sharpener Pro 3.0 to regain clarity in digital images, draw the viewer’s attention to the focal point of an image and achieve perfectly sharpened images for stunning prints every time with this complete solution.

Selective sharpening with U Point technology

Simply the most unique and powerful image editing technology available today, U Point powered controls allow you to precisely control sharpness and detail selectively within an image without the need for complicated selections or layer masks. Enhancements are automatically and naturally blended throughout your image for spectacular results.

Creative sharpening tools

Powerful new creative sharpening tools enable you to enhance subtle details and textures that are hidden with an image. When selectively applied using Control Points these tools enable you to draw attention to key areas within your images.

RAW Presharpener

The updated RAW Presharpener feature retains and enhances sharp details within images without amplifying noise and artifacts. RAW Presharpener compensates for the potential loss of clarity and detail caused through digital capture or digital noise reduction techniques.

Sharpening Soft Proof

An industry first, the Sharpening Soft Proof ensures quality results and eliminates the time and expense of test prints.

Output sharpener

Designed to sharpen based on proven loss of detail caused by different output methods and devices, the Output Sharpener filter provides the optimum controls for creating perfectly sharpened images for such devices as display, inkjet, continuous tone, half tone and hybrid print devices.

Output Presets

Saves time in the photographic workflow by saving custom settings for repeatable, professional results.

Time-saving Professional Interface

The completely updated and reworked interface in Sharpener Pro 3.0 features key controls placed conveniently on the right side of your image workspace for fast and consistent access. Also a Navigator Loupe provides a quick 100% view and navigation view, saved settings, and a resizable user interface help speed your workflow.

Mfr. Part No.: nik-3046

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Features

• Adaptive sharpening
• Selective sharpening, powered by U Point technology
• Creative sharpening tools
• Sharpening Soft Proof
• RAW pre-sharpening
• Output sharpener
• Time-saving interface
• Multi-image support (Aperture only)
• Smart Filter support (Photoshop® only)
• Selective Tool for brushing in enhancements (Photoshop only)

Did you notice?

Sharpening Soft Proof feature mimics your printed output on screen, letting you inspect sharpening results and eliminate costly test prints.

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Digital photographers who want complete control over the sharpening process to yield the highest quality results when they print their own images or send them out to a lab.

System requirements

• Mac OS v10.4 or v10.5 or later
• Power PC G4 or G5 or Intel Core processor
• 256MB of RAM
• Adobe Photoshop CS2 through CS4, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and 6.0, or an image editing application that accepts Adobe Photoshop plug-ins compatible filters*
• Apple Aperture 2.1 or later

• Windows 2000 Professional/XP/Vista (32-bit)
• 1GHz Pentium III or faster
• 256MB of RAM
• Adobe Photoshop 7 through CS4, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 through 7.0, or Adobe Photoshop plug-in compatible application*

What’s in the box?

• Sharpener Pro 3.0 by Nik Software
• Quick start guide
• Product key