For this review, I chose an image that was taken late in the day and in very mixed light. You have lots of washed out areas and lots of shadows. To make my points I did some over correcting to make sure that you could see the differences in a small 72 dpi web shot.

The image below shows the screen when you open the Viveza window. The left side contains the image where you place your color points. In this case I used 9 all together. Some of the color points where used to focus on certain qualities that needed to be enhanced, such as the trees, and others were used to negate the changes, such as the one on the sign that is in the middle of the trees. In this case I had to enhance the greens and the brightness to bring out the trees, but in doing so really distorted the sign, so I had to have one to correct that; I used the one on that sign to make it pop out more as well.

On the right side of the screen you see the list of control points and you can make changes there. This is where I created the masking image above from. At the bottom is called the Loupe, and it is where you can see the difference between the original and the color point version. In this case I used that dot to bring out the red in the bricks that were lost to evening shadows.

In the final image I show a side by side of the changes that I made. I set it up as a Smart Object so anytime I can go back and re-edit it; another feature that I like about this product. Again, let me point out that I over compensated on some of the items to show the amount of control that Viveza 1.0 gives to you in your images. I would tone some of these down if I were going to create a larger image, or do a print from this.

OK, the sky was totally blown; washed out completely and nothing can fix that, not even Viveza. As I said before, I dropped one on the trees to bring them out. The building below the trees was washed out and needed some contrast and lowering of brightness to bring out the detail of the lights. The sign in the trees did not need the same effect as the trees and I wanted to make the yellow stand out more.