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Brochure Pictures

Jim Fox — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:17:58 +0000

One of our suppliers always puts out a yearly request for pictures of our installs they can use in their brochures. This is one of my favorites pictures I grabbed and of course I had to play with it in Nik’s SilverEfex Pro. Unfortunately with the small images, you cannot see the lighted Christmas tree in this image. ENJOY

SilverEfex Pro Experiment

Jim Fox — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:20:32 +0000

Was looking thru some old pictures tonight and happened across some of my old lighthouse pictures. I had the thought of…..”I wonder what that would looking in Black and White?”. So off I went with several images into SilverEfex Pro 3.0. Of all the Nix Software applications this is one of my favorites. One of the built in presets is “Cyanotype”. Cyanotype was a popular process in the 20th century engineering world (Blueprints). Since this particular image was taken on a very cold February evening, I thought the blue cast gave the picture a cold feel. ENJOY!

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Fall Color and Nik Software’s SilverEfex Pro

Jim Fox — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:13:13 +0000

Really not a lot of work into this post processing wise. Nik Software’s SilverEfex Pro did most the work. After doing my initial Level and Curve adjustments in Photoshop, I also applied two unsharp masks of 150, 1.5, 3 and 20, 50, 0. I then ran the finished image thru SiverEfex Pro and applied the Sepia preset. I then took both the color version and the sepia version into Photoshop CS4 and blended the layers. Click on the image to see a larger version.

ENJOY!