[Leica] IMG: Nik Analog Efex Pro 2

[Peter Klein]

I agree that many of the effects are too strong "out of the box."  But you
can adjust the amount of the effect you add. Also, if you like the tonality
of a particular B&W conversion, but not the grain, you can turn the grain
off.  When you select a preset, it sets all the adjustments, but then you
can re-tweak them, and even save your adjusted version as a new preset.

I'm not sure how useful all this will be.  I'm already used to getting
things the way I like them in Capture One. But a useful preset can save a
lot of time. So I want to give the Nik tools a try. I know that many
people, including our Tina, swear by Silver Efex Pro in particular, and I
heard good things about the sharpener app as well.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
wrote:

> I will see in due course, as I said elsewhere I only downloaded it today.
> Will
> need to see what I can do with it. It doesn't seem very good though. I had
> imagined a better imitation of various films, with perhaps some additional
> digital trick.
>
> Peter
>
> On 30/03/2016 21:23, Jim Nichols wrote:
> > Yes, that's the same image, Peter.  I was looking for some strong
> contrast, but
> > did not like all of the grain "simulation" that resulted.  It, to me, is
> not a
> > very useful tool.
> >
> > Jim Nichols
> > Tullahoma, TN USA
> >
> > On 3/30/2016 3:19 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote:
> >> Really not sure what I think.
> >>
> >> It looks so different from the original (if that is the one called
> "Stripes and
> >> Inlets") that I am not sure whether it is even right to call it the
> same photo,
> >> the effect is is so strong. I have never played with the tool so don't
> know
> >> anything much about the effects it has, but surely film wasn't like
> that!
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> On 27/03/2016 17:15, Jim Nichols wrote:
> >>> With all of the talk about the free Nik offering, I decided to try one
> of their
> >>> tools that I had not used previously.  I took a digital image of a
> descending
> >>> sky diver and converted it to its film equivalent, using Nik Analog
> Efex Pro 2.
> >>> Here  is the dramatic conversion.
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Dramatic+Conversion.TIFF.html
> >>>
> >>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
> >>>
> >
> >
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