[Leica] Monochrome Post S/W?

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Adam,
The other huge advantage with all NIK software is you can do fairly complex, highly localised adjustments very easily. IMHO, Silver Efex Pro is the best there is, and has been for years now, for B&W conversion and adjustments.
Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 07-Mar-2016, at 23:44, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> NIK sometimes provides some global adjustments as well as some
> pre-programed looks that I like. I usually dial them back. I also open NIK
> as a smart object so I can go back and edit it.
> 
> I believe they are RGB files.
> 
> The nice thing about layers and smart layers is they can be turned on and
> off, opacities can be changed, or you can go back into them and adjust
> within, NIK let's say, the program that may have created them.
> 
> Best,
> Bob
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Adam Bridge <abridge683 at fastmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 7, 2016, at 8:36 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> As for BW, I do it in PS and use luminosity layers, curve layers and
>> level
>>> layers to play around with it after using a smart filter layer in PS to
>>> adjust filter effects. Final act is to use NIK software, but usually
>> after
>>> I've edited with tons of layers in CC15, it doesn't provide a whole lot
>>> extra. I also play a bit around with DxO files for different film types.
>>> Works well.
>> 
>> What do you get from running it through NIK, Bob, that you don’t get from
>> Photoshop?
>> 
>> And do you save the final image as a grayscale image or as an RGB image?
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Best,
> Bob
> 
> Bob Adler
> www.robertadlerphotography.com
> 
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