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Subject: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sat Dec 2 12:59:09 2006
References: <000001c7164b$c68965c0$4d45e344@GATEWAY> <4C0FFA9E-DE3C-4C77-884E-C7CC38D3BF4D@pandora.be> <4571E4E9.50908@waltjohnson.com>

I don't think this would come out of the M8. These reddish colors  
remind me of 70s photography, of which I like the unnatural color  
shifts.



Op 2-dec-06, om 21:41 heeft Walt Johnson het volgende geschreven:

> Philippe
>
> Is it just me or does the Alien Skin rendition  look a bit M8ish.?.  
> I really see an awful lot of magenta in the skin tones, sidewalk  
> and sign letters.
>
> Walt
>
> Philippe Orlent wrote:
>
>> This is a photograph that I already showed exactly as below here.  
>> I  shot it on Fuji NPS160, with professional development, but had  
>> it  scanned commerially on low res: all flattened out.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/y4o8pq
>> or bigger:
>> http://tinyurl.com/tbwgw
>>
>>
>>
>> This is the same shot after I let Alien Skin (and some minor   
>> additional PS alterations) have a go at the original scan today:
>>
>> as big as above:
>> http://tinyurl.com/y373rf
>>
>> !!! the big ones are in Adobe RGB !!!
>>
>> Isn't the 2nd one much more distinctive and doesn't it have a lot   
>> more character? Or am I just overenthousiastic?
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>> Op 2-dec-06, om 20:55 heeft Jeffery Smith het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> I feel the same way. I just like the way film looks. Digital, to   
>>> me, seems
>>> snapshot-ish, probably because hundreds of millions of people  
>>> are  taking
>>> snapshots with them as we speak. I'll give your plug-in a try  
>>> when  I get my
>>> on-the-way Mac and PS CS2 set up Tuesday night.
>>>
>>> Jeffery Smith
>>> New Orleans, LA
>>> http://www.400tx.com
>>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf  
>>> Of  Philippe
>>> Orlent
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 12:28 PM
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure
>>>
>>>
>>> It's a plug in intended to 'imitate' that good ole film look in
>>> digital photography. It does it amazingly well, fast, for about any
>>> film you can imagine, in color and in B&W and is tweakable in a lot
>>> of parameters, so you can create your own 'signature'  for personal
>>> settings that can be saved. I converted a digital shot to the Ektar
>>> 25 look, added some grain and deeped the shadows, put a soft pink
>>> filter on it and then made it a bit warmer. The photo gained a  
>>> lot in
>>> quality due to this. In no time at all.
>>> I never liked digital photography just because of that:  
>>> undistinctive
>>> color profiles unless with a lot of effort and work in PS. And now
>>> its solved.
>>>
>>> Philippe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Op 2-dec-06, om 19:07 heeft Jeffery Smith het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> What does it do?
>>>>
>>>> Jeffery Smith
>>>> New Orleans, LA
>>>> http://www.400tx.com
>>>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>>>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> Philippe
>>>> Orlent
>>>> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:17 AM
>>>> To: LUG Group
>>>> Subject: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just downloaded this PS Plug in. This is one piece of nifty  
>>>> software!
>>>> Philippe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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