I have never used Exposure, nor any of the other Alienskin products, but it
looks expensive (at $149) compared to the Nik offering which I have used, and
is also $149, but not just for Silver Efex Pro, the price includes the whole
suite. Granted, Nik does require PS, LR, Aperture or PSE, which is an added
expense if you don't already have one of them. But the On One Perfect Effects
suite which Bob W has praised (I have also used to good effect) is another
which does not require to be run as a plug-in.
Piers
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From: olympus [mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Chris Trask
Sent: 19 June 2014 01:28
To: Olympus Camera Discussion; Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Digital B&W Photography - A Revelation
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>It does, but it takes a while and some practice to see how it works.
>Pick one of the better converters mentioned here and stick it out for a
>while. It took me a good six months before I got comfortable with SFX, and I’m
>still learning years later.
>
I used Exposure 6 (Exp6) for a period of time this morning and readily
found that it met my needs. It converted a colour image to B&W with filtering
from yellow through orange and into red with progressively darkened sky. I
liked the way that it performed B&W conversions to meet a wide variety of B&W
films plus IR, where the foliage in my test photo turned whitish. I want to
explore it more, and at the same time look at Topaz and SFX.
At first I thought that Exp6 required LR as a basis, but it later turned
out that it can operate as a stand alone program.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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