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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Silver Efex Pro and Sophia at the Children's Museum
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:05:08 -0500
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George, I really have not explored them in any depth yet, I just tried a few.

Like you I am also curious as to how close they get to the fine work
that can be achieved very quickly using Silver Efex Pro or Alien Skin
Exposure 2 or with much more time, effort and skill just using
Photoshop alone.

--Bob

==On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:39 PM, George Lottermoser<imagist3 at mac.com> 
wrote:
> Thanks for that Link Robert.
>
> I'll definitely look into those possibilities.
>
> Have you used any in particular
> that do a fine job
> in simulating various B&W film type
> grain structures
> and
> spectral responses?
> Silver Efex Pro really does a terrific job in those two respects.
>
> Most of the other tweaks in Efex Pro are already available in LR.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Robert D. Baron wrote:
>
>> George, there are a number of pre-sets available.
>>
>> I have barely skimmed the surface, but see for example
>> http://www.flickr.com/groups/presets/discuss/72157612664073371/
>>
>> (Scroll down to the Kodak B&W Film Emulation presets by Gray
>> Imaging....also MikeyG's Black & White Film Presets Vol 1....)
>>


In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] IMG: Silver Efex Pro and Sophia at the Children's Museum)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: Silver Efex Pro and Sophia at the Children's Museum)
Message from rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron) ([Leica] IMG: Silver Efex Pro and Sophia at the Children's Museum)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: Silver Efex Pro and Sophia at the Children's Museum)
Message from rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron) ([Leica] IMG: Silver Efex Pro and Sophia at the Children's Museum)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] IMG: Silver Efex Pro and Sophia at the Children's Museum)