![]() ![]() #1 - This is a toned conversion that I did with one of my color slide film images from Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Illustration #1 was obtained from one of those presets, the Antique Plate #1. The program comes with several dozen presets, and you can custom make your own to add to the selections, or download even more from online. The preset thumbnail actually uses your image to represent it. When Silver Efex opens it does so in a large window that, on the left, contains a set of presets that will show you what each effect will make the image look like, even before it is applied. It seamlessly works inside Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Apple Aperture, but not just as another small toolbox. The current Pro 2 version is both easier to use and way more powerful than anything before it. Then came along Silver Efex a few years back and changed all that, and the images and the software just kept getting better ever since. In the not too distant past, to acquire a really good b&w conversion was nearly impossible. One great example of what can be done is seen in the Nik Software ad showing Art Wolfe's image of towering cliffs in China. I don't know of many photographers who shoot color and do not also want to convert their best images into black & whites. ![]()
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