Last week I attend a portrait session with a 4x5 camera, and it was something special. Those platinum prints I'm sure it's pretty cool to grab a film slr and do it as it was done originally. I got into photography in the digital age so didn't have that experience, but like the digital options these programs give.
Of course, any modern digital camera will offer easier to achieve and better results than an old fully manual film camera, but they are fun to use. OK, if you also own a darkroom then that is a different story. You can also have fun by setting your digital camera to all manual. You either print those scans with an enlarger or you scan them, it is not that complicated.
How do you work with RAW in Sfex 3? Is there a way to use RAW? Adobe's products do that by saving the history of the changes made to a RAW file, and if I understand the process correctly, that requires attaching an additional layer of information. That's the way they have always worked. Personally, I like that so as not to modify the original RAW data. Open raw file as 16 bit smart object in photoshop, apply filter to smart object.
Photoshop will then rerender the filter settings and you have the option of editing the smart filter to change its settings. Really powerful and non destructive way to edit photos. I much prefer RNI Films 5. Not to mention the RNI colors are second to none.
Not to mention spending hours in the lab with chemicals and then being able to send said files electronically. Grainy black and white adds grit to a gritty subject.
If you don't believe me, Robert Frank is a great example of a photographer who went against the grain by embracing grain as part of the look of his images. Also, I knew a guy who lived in Berlin in the 80s. He would go to gallery opening and various events, right afterwards, he would develop the film in his van and have prints ready in a matter of hours. Nice that now you just need a laptop and not a mobile darkroom. Looks paid to me. No cons at all for software with destructive editing process and quite average not so accurate film looks.
I own Nik Collection 3 with Silver Efex 2. Even version 2 is as good as the reviewer states. Silver Efex is organised around working towards a black and white result with realistic black and white film feel not the grain but the subtlety in tone.
It's on another level than trying to create black and white in either PhotoLab or Photoshop or Capture One. It's a favorable review. It's no different that a "Silver Award" for a camera. A good review doesn't mean it's sponsored - it just means the reviewer liked the product.
I then took advantage of a 'free - upgraded with all new bugs version' from Google some years later. The first paid DxO version was essentially a bug fix of the last google version, which seemed bit harsh for people who had already paid and then had it broken, so I skipped that. Then when I tried an upgraded version from DxO trial , it proceeded to uninstall my existing version. DxO did provide a link to the old Google 'free' version, but that kept crashing when trying to enter the key. I can no longer see a link to the old Google version from DxO, did they announced they stopped that.
At this point, it's not really DxO's lookout to provide the free Google version. DxO acquired Nik in There's so many issues trying to run the free Google version on recent OS, it's really only valuable if you are running a computer with either Snow Leopard or Windows 7 and Photoshop CS6. Both as stand-alone and as plugin to Photoshop Elements surprisingly. There is a Youtube Video somewhere how to download and install it, but I forgot the link.
UncoyDP - Typically I'd agree with the general notion, but there are a number of unusual circumstances here, not least of which is DxO still branding it as Nik. It's still benefiting from the Nik heritage, so if not DxO to take care of that, then who? They certainly knew what they were buying into. The main issue is with the trial uninstalling a working version, and that is still something within DxO's control, hence the question. I run them from Aperture.
It's not my main computer, but the one I prefer photo editing on. Don't break what works :. Aperture doesn't work anymore on that system, but there is an inexpensive software called Lyn Viewer, which was able to replace my Aperture. The switch was easier than I had thought. Exported the Aperture library to externally managed files, installed Lyn, and voila. It's all there. But at some point that hardware is going to fail, and with it your library, unless you transfer it. And if I wanted commercial, I go for Exposure, which actually does really good job in mimicking film "feel" in digital.
Cause there isnt highlighted fact that it has 30 days trial, right? You not very clever, are you. RawTherapee is free and as technically capable as any other RAW development application in the world.
It's also a bear to use. If you can handle the frustration and learn to efficiently use the ultra-geeky interface of RawTherapee, kudos to you. You're a magnificent stoic and have a much stronger stomach than I do for ugly and overladen UX. I doubt Exposure does as good a job on black and white as Silver Efex, although it wouldn't surprise me if it matched PhotoLab, which also has film emulation including black and white.
Silver Efex was in another category for me when I worked on some black and white images head to head. Silver Efex is just easy, thats all. There are many solutions, a lot of them much less heavy handed, to get nice BW pics. RT is hard to learn, took me quite some time to get used to it, but there isnt anything out there that can match it in quite a few aspects. Just its exact opposite of easy to use. Actually surprised me, last time I used it was x4. PhotoLab is really good in NR and they have rather okay demosaicing algo for most cameras as long as its Bayer matrix.
Also their color profiles for cameras are really good and make good base for any color or BW processing after. Being clever is not something I've ever been accused of. No app can beat real film. I think using some MF with it is probably better solution, or if someone is okay with large format, why not one of Fuji creations that could do some movements too.
I agree mit dem Fotografen. Rollfim on an LF view camera is quite viable. I did quite a bit of that on Arca 6x9 camera which also was convertible to 4x5. Transporting and handling sheets of film in holders and possibly changing them blindly in a dark tent in the field is quite a different level of endeavour and effort required.
Rollfilm is fun, and it scans reasonably well on an Epson flatbed V or so unlike 35mm film. Well, I tried to carry an argument ad absurdum I regarded rather snobby in the first place. But if you want to argue seriously, when working with LF 4x5 I typically shot landscape, and when doing that rollfilm was simply incapable of delivering even the sharpness that my original Sony a7R is capable of.
In any case, the endeavor to make digital look like film is rather pointless in my book as in: that's my personal opinion not an absolute truth , simply because digital is technically superior to film so why take a step back? I get the 'creative look' part but is it really creative to make digital look like film, or to use lenses with tons of aberrations, for that matter?
Digital gives me the headroom to manipulate an image in a way that makes the most sense for that image. Its a shame that it has taken many months to get the bugs fixed and to get the software stable. But it is great software, with many powerful features. I just wish DxO would be a bit more interactive with their user base.
Try feedback. The community has some talented and generous expert users. The developers drop in occasionally could be more often, it's true.
James Grove my Nik Collection had some pretty insane bugs. I would transfer about I contacted customer support in late November by opening a ticket. Some dude named Saito replied and in very bad English told me they'd deal with it. After some back and forth, riddled with typoes and including calling me Vittorino - quite uncouth, they simply disappeared and never fixed my issue.
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The update also addresses other bugs found in firmware version 1. Submit a News Tip! Reading mode: Light Dark. Login Register. Best cameras and lenses. Now reading: Software review: Nik Silver Efex Pro 3 gives the look of black and white film without the fuss comments. Jump to: Introduction What's new Interface Conclusion Introduction Nik Silver Efex Pro 3 is a black-and-white conversion tool that goes far further than the grayscale or black-and-white tools built into Adobe Photoshop.
Even at its default 'neutral' setting, Silver Efex Pro's rendering is noticeably different to that of a simple grayscale conversion in Photoshop. Click here for the full-sized Silver Efex image , here for Photoshop grayscale or here for full color. Compared to that of version 2, Silver Efex Pro 3's interface is much cleaner and more modern. Click here for the full-sized Silver Efex image or here for the original color image.
The selective colorization slider lets you bring back a specific color range to your otherwise-black and white image using U-Point selections. Image uses Full Dynamic Smooth preset.
Click here for the Silver Efex image or here for the original color image. The ClearView filter in Silver Efex Pro is quite effective, but can't be targeted only at specific areas of the image, so can cause overly-contrasty foregrounds if pushed too far. Click here for the full-sized default image , here for the ClearView image or here for full color.
Color filters can be simulated after the fact in Silver Efex Pro 3, so you can do things like darkening a blue sky with a yellow filter to help give the clouds more definition. Click here for the full-sized unfiltered image , here for the filtered image or here for full color.
Tags: review , software , software-review. View Comments Comments All FoxShutter It looks so artificial. Zaax Or a Fuji. Sue Anne Rush Thank you.
Docno BTW, this was their explanation for the situation: "Originally, none of the Nik Collection plug-ins were developed by us and had not been maintained for a long time by the former owner. BaldCol I have Silver Efex and I know a number of people who love it but I just cannot get to grips with the control point system. Am sticking to colour for now, sadly, unless the file itself is monochrome. Stujomo Bought silver fx pro from NIK software years, then google gave away the whole suite so got the rest for free.
Tim van der Leeuw I don't quite understand what exactly these luma and chroma sensitivity sliders control. Stujomo It only take like 10 seconds to make the tiff worth for the better grain over lightroom.
PhotoKhan This business model is quite odd to me. No matter how good this might be, it is just another one. Tungsten Nordstein 'Nik Silver Efex Pro 3 gives the look of black and white film without the fuss' And without the pleasure, some might say. So take your pick And far less so than oil and petroleum. Old Cameras I think it utterly fails to look anything like film. And probably have never used film. RichardCass I have Silver Efex 3. Stujomo Old Cameras, you can make the images look how ever you want with Silver FX no need to open every shadow or compress anything, it's the user that controls the software.
Just throw up a curve! Albert Macfarlane While digital black and white is likely best achieved with a monochrome sensor, the improvement in conversion programs like Silver Efex Pro make color sensors closer to getting results comparable to the expensive and esoteric monochrome cameras. Eric Hensel " they could not distinguish black and white images which originated on a monochrome sensor Leica or a Sony color sensor.
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