Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/02

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Subject: [Leica] Alien Skin Exposure
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sat Dec 2 13:17:13 2006
References: <000001c7164b$c68965c0$4d45e344@GATEWAY> <4C0FFA9E-DE3C-4C77-884E-C7CC38D3BF4D@pandora.be> <4571E4E9.50908@waltjohnson.com> <9D7847E5-C148-46B6-AA18-0BCFCC77D99F@pandora.be>

BTW, that gritty look of yours that I like so much? Just a few clicks  
away:

http://tinyurl.com/yj4z68

Man, am I happy with this thing!

Philippe



Op 2-dec-06, om 21:59 heeft Philippe Orlent het volgende geschreven:

> 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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