Discover the beauty of black and white photography with Silver Efex Pro 2, the world's leading solution for creating stunning images.Nik Collection is a great suite of tools to give your photographs a unique touch by applying filters and effects with personality. Traditional analog cameras can give an artistic look to any photo, but the equipment can prove to be hard to find, and time consuming to deal with.Īnalog Efex Pro is a Mac app that eliminates these issues by enabling to to experiment with vintage camera effects from the comfort of your desktop. Uncomplicated image processor integrated in the Nik CollectionĪnalog Efex Pro can work as a standalone application, but cannot be installed on its own: since it is included in the Nik Collection, you must download, install and buy the entire software collection.įor your convenience, the Nik Collection software package includes both installer and removal utilities, so all you have to do is follow the on screen instructions. Effortlessly give a classic camera look and feel to your entire photo collection You will find Analog Efex Pro in the Nik Collection folder that will be generated in the Applications directory. To get started, you must import the image you want to process by dragging and dropping it on top of the Analog Efex Pro Dock icon. Straightforward image processing utility focused on emulating vintage camerasĪnalog Efex Pro offers you the possibility to replicate the style given to photos by classic, analog cameras: the app includes 9 built in presets, but you also have the possibility to create custom ones, or to import recipes created by your friends.Some good introductions by Northlight Images The photo will be displayed in the canvas area, and you get to preview both the source image and the output result.Īnalog Efex Pro comes with 9 classic camera presets and you have the option to adjust various image parameters, such as the brightness / contrast / saturation level, the type of dirt and scratches that will be simulated, the film type, or the lens vignette pattern.
Mind you some things: when you save the image in standalone mode it will overwrite the original, so better make a copy beforehand. A breakdown of Googles free Lightroom and Photoshop plug-in download: Analog Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, HDR Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Viveza, Sharpener Pro, Dfine. In Dfine the more manual noise's patches you select the better the results, BIG difference, it's also worth tweaking the advanced controls. Whenever I say u-point I mean control points, I'm used that way these points behave a bit like add or/and subtract circular gradients' masks (with selectable ratio/size and transparency/power) but they also are very sensitive to where they're placed, a bit like a spot light (mimicking a 3D behaviour) within the confinement of a 2 space. When you save a recipe, U-points are not saved with it. basically there's no way of creating a U-point "memory". You can export your recipes and backed them up, shared them, etc. Also U-points behave differently depending on filter, e.g. In Pro-contrast the effect is not activated unless you create either "+" or "-" u-points. I found to be useful to mark the favourite effects (yellow star) so they're easier to locate. If there is something you'd like to apply to a video, you can save a recipe (as long as there are no vignetes, sharpening, etc. Only luma and chroma tweaks without masks), convert Davinci's base trim_lut0.dpx to png or tif, apply your recipe and then create an timeline with the file and extract the grade's LUT in Resolve =)įinally, attached are 41 presets - the ones managed to find - I created on CE long time ago plus a couple charts for testing. You've got to understand that many of them were developed working on some specific look/batch/context/experience, plenty of times directly with unrefined (no time to cut baby's nails man?!!) base image, sometimes darker, sometimes brighter, more constrasty, more bland, etc. Most if not all are meant to be used together with U-points, otherwise pretty useless for instance I recurred a lot to the glow effect, but the reality was that more often than not with just u-points to very specific areas, as I mentioned before it's silly but there's no way to save those u-points.
Hierarchy of effects' stack can also be changed and thus plenty more variations are possible. To import the presets, see here - they'll live in /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/Google/Color\ Efex\ Pro\ 4/ImportedPresets folder on a mac.
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