On Sat, Jan 14, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > Forgot to ask: is Silver Efex Pro fairly easy to use? Or will it take a > while to figure out? Cheers, Christine >
Hi Christine. Thanks for the kind comment in the other post. Silver Efex Pro can be both easy and complicated. It has a wide range of presets that are simple to apply and can be previewed within the program's interface. Then there are a host of adjustment sliders that I haven't really checked out in detail yet. It will probably take a bit of time to work out what all of the sliders do and how they affect various parts of the image. As I'm using Silver Efex as a plugin for CS3, I've been opting for the simple approach which mainly means selecting two or three presets, each of which gets applied as a separate layer within Photoshop. I then use masks to apply different parts of each preset to the final image. Presumably, you couldn't use that approach in Lightroom so you probably would need to come to grips with the adjustment sliders. It's certainly worth downloading and playing with it - especially as the demo is not limited in any way other than time. But at $200, it's not going to see a permanent home here in the immediate future. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > On Jan 10, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Brian Walters 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/ > > -- > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- 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.
