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Yes, you use color filters with black and white film-in fact, this was an Ansel Adams hallmark.

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This free the color channels of the black and white brick for you to emulate color filters easily.

The black and white brick has only three color channels, while the color brick has six ( the three positives and their negative compliments).

The color brick is almost never used anyways in black and white processing (for obvious reasons).

For color sensitivity, I opted for the color brick instead of the color channels black and white one. In general, black and white film has a dynamic range much greater than that of digital cameras so this S curve is much less pronounced than in color films.īlack and white film actually also has different sensitivity to different colors-and different film chemistry behaves differently. All the films have S-curves, of a sort-just in different ways. For the few black and white films I know, they seem to be about the right shape. I simply used the curves tool to emulate the same curves that are in nik’s estimate. I’ve already discussed film exposure-it was how I got to the tangent of black and white film in the first place. This is because Silver Efex Pro emulates three properties of film: exposure response, color sensitivity, and film grain and I do a poor job, or don’t do it at all in Aperture. My effects are not like Silver Efex’s film effects brick. 🙂īakari has an extended tutorial w/screenshots. They work great with the black-and-white tool to create masking effects.

Learn about brushes to only apply part of a preset brick to one level.

If you hold the Option key while choosing a preset, it will wipe any previous presets before applying.

Before letting go, note that you can see a preview of what it will look like when applied.

Go to the Adjustments tab, and choose the “Presets > (preset to apply)” here.

Find an image you want to use and hit Option-V to create a new version of the image (for safety).

Select “Adjustment Presets.AdjustmentPresets” and click “Import”.

Select Import… from the “Gears” menu on the bottom.

Select Presets > Edit Presets… from the menu.

Open Adjustments tab in Aperture (Ctrl-A) -it’s the right tab in the Inspector (I to toggle).

#Preset silver efex pro 2 how to

I never explained how to use these presets. If any are broken or incorrect, please tell me in the comments below and I’ll fix them.) (Note that Aperture has decided to have a brain fart and replace all my photos even if they haven’t been changed at all.

Mouse rollover contain images processed in Nik Silver Efex Pro. Leica M8, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm F1.2 AsphericalĬlick on the controls above to test the different film presets. Tagged, Financial District, San Francisco, California Above the image there’s a control panel where you can click to see the effect of the preset (and compare it to Silver Efex Pro): In order to show the B&W film effects, I hacked in an extension to my IMG Mouseover plugin. In the meantime, I added Pavel Sigarteu’s SinCity, El TiDY’s presets, and Ian Wood’s Aperture 2 Image Presets Project to the download.) (Note that my friends of Aperture Users Flickr are thinking of creating a website to house presets so I don’t know how long I’ll keep updating this. Current version at time of this writing is 0.4. I thought I’d try to emulate them in Aperture with a set a presets, starting with black and white film.ĭownload the presets here. The film effects section of my last article on Aperture presets reminded me that I really like the film effects in nik Color Efex Pro and nik Silver Efex Pro.