Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/20

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Subject: [Leica] Lou Reed, Now Salgado...Now B&W Emulation Software
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:26:35 +0530
References: <30db39f20911200924y6a3b7092q7fc28617c158d07b@mail.gmail.com>

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
>
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