Thanks Brian. I'll download asap. Cheers, Christine
On Jan 15, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
