Nik Software and Vertus have teamed up to offer their respective products in a bundle that would save the buyer about 20%, or $110. Both products – Nik’s Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Edition and Vertus’ Fluid Mask 3 – would cost $540 if purchased separately.
Available on both companies’ websites as electronic download files, the products are being offered together at $429.95. The bundle offer is good until June 1, 2008. If you already own a current copy of Color Efex Pro 3.0, you may buy Fluid Mask 3 from Nik Software at a 15% discount.
Color Efex Pro 3.0 from Nik Software is a suite of photographic filter applications for digital photography. The Complete Edition contains fifty-two filters and over 250 effects for retouching, color correction, traditional filtering, and other creative enhancements to photographs. It also uses Nik Software’s patented U Point technology to selectively apply enhancements without the need for complicated selections or layer masks.
Fluid Mask 3 from Vertus is a masking software touted to be the most powerful and accurate image extraction tool on the market. It offers a “Smart Blending†capability unique to the software, an effective edge detection system, and intuitive workflow resources.
[Sites: Nik Software, Vertus]