These portraits show the difference between Contrast and Soft Contrast. There are more tools for enhancing texture The original colour photo is shown top left.Ģ. You can buy Develop Presets for Lightroom, but it will be difficult to find some that give you as many options as those in Silver Efex Pro 2. This places the plug-in ahead of Photoshop, and probably ahead of Lightroom too. Silver Efex Pro 2 has 38 presets that you can use as starting points for your processing work, including vintage looks as well as modern ones. Rather than provide a comprehensive review of the software, I’m going to look at some of the things you can do with it that you can’t (or would be much more difficult) in Photoshop or Lightroom. Today I’m going to look at what many people consider to be the best black and white plug-in around – Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2. But the last few years have also seen an increase in the number of plug-ins built to do nothing else, other than convert photos to monochrome. It’s best to apply borders only when you’ve settled on the final picture size and aspect ratio since you won’t be able to crop the picture later without losing some of the border.You can convert colour photos to black and white in Photoshop and Lightroom (or your Raw conversion software of choice). The Image Borders section has a range of plain, film like or rough edged print border effects which you can choose from the drop-down menu and adjust with the sliders. It’s not unlike using the graduated filters you get in some other programs.
Burning the top edge is a great way to add a sky darkening effect, and burning the base is a great way to balance up the composition if you do. You can darken (burn) the top and bottom and left and right edges individually or all together. You can achieve more controlled and creative ‘dodging and burning’ using the Burn Edges section. Vignettes can effectively simulate the appearance of old lenses, negatives or prints. The Vignette panel offers a range of preset corner darkening or lightening effects, but you can also control these manually. You can also adjust the ‘paper hue’ and ‘silver hue’ separately to create split toning effects. The Toning section offers a large range of preset toning effects, from Sepia to Selenium and many more.
This is the last adjustments panel, but it covers a lot of things, not just the finishing touches.
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