Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I use Silver Efex Pro, and find it excellent. There is a good companion guide available for it as well, by Jason Odell: http://www.luminescentphoto.com/silver_efex/silver_efex_guide.html Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net>wrote: > ==On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Craig Semetko <csemetko at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I've been toying with the idea of creating negs from digital files and > > printing them and this will put me over the top. It sounds really > > intriguing, and I'm encouraged to read the prints are virtually > > indistinguishable from film neg prints. While I was in Germany I met > another > > photographer on assignment for an NGO and he recommended "Silver Effects > > Pro" for adding grain and making digital files look like Tri-X, or any > > number of other films. I've been too busy to download it and try it out > but > > I'll give it a try soon. If anyone has had success with Silver Effects or > > any other film replicating software, I'd love to hear about it. > > > > I think there has been a thread or two on this in the last year, or at > least some mentions of this kind of software. > > Your are talking about > http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php but some of us > have been using > http://www.alienskin.com/exposure/index.aspx > > I've been using Exposure2 and like it a lot but now Nik has updated > SilverEfexPro to be used as a plugin in Lightroom (which I use for 95% > of my processing now) whereas Exposure2 still only works in Photoshop. > > Hope this helps. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >