Viveza or Lab?

I just picked up a copy of Viveza from Nik software ($50 NAPP discount was nice too – thanks Scott Kelby!) and I’m pretty impressed so far.

Viveza’s ability to selectively set control points in your image and adjust individual brightness, contrast and saturation makes it an extremely powerful and versatile adjustment weapon. It can really isolate and add a nice subtle amount of "pop" to certain areas you’d like to enhance. I’ve only had a chance to try it out on a few images so far, but I’m sure it’ll be a tool that I’ll use quite frequently, and will be well worth the money. A quick before and after example: