The Landscape Image Post-Processing Secret

I had been looking at the work of a few of my favorite landscape photographers a few years back and all their images seemed to have a particularly vibrant look to them—one that I wasn’t able to easily reproduce in Photoshop (and I like to think I’m pretty decent in Photoshop). I finally asked one of them about it, and I was pulled over to the side and told about this plug-in and, in particular, a specific filter in this plug-in and a filter preset that a lot of these photographers were using to get “that look.” Of course, I’ve been using it ever since I learned about it, and it’s one of today’s landscape photographers’ secret weapons for making really warm, yet totally vibrant-looking, images. The plug-in is Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro a....