Waiting for the 17:15 to Braunschweig

[Pete Askew]

One for you Chris!!

A typical village station in Germany. Often apparently in the middle of nowhere between several villages.

 

[Vic Shaw]

Yeah, but what a system, even doubledecker trains!

 

[Pete Askew]

Not on the Hoheneggelsen line. But they do still have the nice old fashioned ones with the big rotating lever things to open the doors!!

 

[Vic Shaw]

I got on one between Berlin and Leipzig, also took a shot not dissimilar to this whilst waiting....I might have a stab at this kinda treatment

 

[Pete Askew]

It's an E6 / C41 CP (Yellow) desaturated a touch.

 

[Vic Shaw]

Bishop to Queens Knight 4

 

[Pete Askew]

Check!

Cross process simulation E6 to C41 using a yellow filter set done in Nik ColorFX Pro.

 

[Vic Shaw]

I really got to get that one day......

 

[Pete Askew]

Isn't there a module in Topaz?

 

[Vic Shaw]

I only have Adjust, I'm sure they would have one.....I think they brought a new one out this week with something like that on it.....I'm sure I can fake it some how. I will have to splash out one day!

 

[Pete Askew]

Give the trial version of Nik a go. It is unlimited except it only works for 15 days.

 

[Vic Shaw]

Going to download it now

 

[Pete Askew]

Have fun!! They are truly stunning.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I'm reaching for my thermos just looking at your shot Pete! LOL

Love the PP - classic

 

[Paul Lange]

Red Paw Media has a free E6 - C41 cp Photoshop Plugin filter for download. Its quite flexible and I guess it will work with any other photo editing software that accepts PS plugins.

 

[Pete Askew]

Hi Paul, I used to use the Red Paw filters a lot (before the guy in Arlesford sold them to the current owners in the US). I now use Macs for most of my editing and, despite saying that new filters and a port to Mac was coming, nothing has been developed (just BBP has become free). I now use Nik more as their packages are cross-platform and very good. I also like the filters produced by Pixel Genius and, before Nik, that was my preferred CP simulation. Hope they soon produce a 64 bit version of their burn and dodge tone set as that is really superb.

 

[Paul Lange]

What does PS CS4 & 5 run like on Macs, On the PC they hog huge amounts of processor power and can grind to a halt sometimes even when doing fairly regular tasks.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Paul - have good results running CS4 on my Mac, both laptop and desktop - I'm using a generation old Core 2 Duo Intel based machines with 4GB RAM.

Often have many images open etc and performance is good.

 

[Pete Askew]

Same for me Paul. Even on a 4 year old MBP there is no problem and I often run LR, PS CS5 and some Nik filters at the same time (2.4 GHz and 6GB RAM with a 500GB HDD). The MacPro has a ridiculous amount of RAM (21GB - due to a dyslexic sales guy at Cancom!) and a more recent processor than Chris' and flies through stuff.

 

[Paul Lange]

I suspect that PS is not as well written for the PC and a touch of big companyitis means they assume that people will just go out and buy a £3000 PC so it can run well. I think that most Adobe products have always run better on Macs hence why they are considered the defacto standard in the industry.