That's quite a dramatic image, Brian. Very nice! Nik software is very powerful stuff and impresses me no end. The people involved are the industry's best. But their pricing is way too high for me. $200 for a plugin when Lightroom itself is $200 just doesn't work for me.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > 'morning all > > I decided to download Nik Silver Efex Pro and give it a whirl. > > I've been playing around with a B&W conversion of this pano for a few > days but 10 minutes with Nik produced a version that was much better > than any I had been able to achieve, > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP2081a_2086a-PESO.html > > (you can see a bigger version by clicking the link under the image) > > The pano comprises six images merged with Hugin. The colour version was > processed in CS3 before letting Silver Efex loose on it. > > Silver Efex Pro is certainly a powerful bit of software and I haven't > scratched the surface of it's features yet, but at $200 there's no way > I'll be buying it after the 15 day trial is over. > > Comments, as always, much appreciated. > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
