Half a door (silver efex)

[Hamish Gill]

A b&w version for Brian
Silver efex is a wonderful wonderful thing

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[Pete Askew]

It is indeed. What were your settings here Hamish?

 

[Hamish Gill]

dunno mate ... im not at the stage where im watching what im doing, just pressing buttons ... there are a few local adjustments on the go!

 

[Paul Lange]

It may be random button pressing but it's turned out not bad mate.

 

[Pete Askew]

Hamish, in one of our posts you said that you weren't sure whether you'd go for SilverFX Pro 2 or ColorFX 4. Well this evening I listened to a 2 hour tutorial / webenar on ColorFX 4. I upgraded the other day and, although I didn't learn a great deal from the tutorial, it was very interesting and made me think more about what I would do if I didn't have the complete suite. So after the tutorial I began to look in more detail at combining the effects in ColorFX 4 to see if I could get to images I liked as much as with SilverFX. By combining B&W conversion, paper toning and film grain you can get some very nice effects and of course save them as recipes to be re-used. OK, you don't have the nice film simulations that you have with SiverFX but with a bit of playing with the colour balance you can achieve some great results. So, if I had to choose, I'd probably go for ColorFX 4.

 

[Hamish Gill]

To be honest Pete, that's probably not what I wanted to hear
I'll edging toward silver efex at the mo!
I'll have more of a play...

 

[Pete Askew]

It would be my first choice for mono that's for sure but if you want the cross processing etc then ColorFx would be better value for money. I've posted an image done entirely with ColorFX.

 

[Hamish Gill]

I think that's why I'm edging toward silver ...
I don't feel my colour shots are lacking in the same way I feel my mono's are ... More thought required I think!

 

[Pete Askew]

I suspect that for you SilverFX is the way to go and if you want CP etc there are other ways and plenty of presets out there that aren't bad at all.