Power Retouche’s ( Black & White Studio ($63) includes a pop-up Control menu, giving you access to three different interfaces: Film, Print, or Zones. The interface also has a digital loupe, to let you check out specific image details. Style Browser provides an overview of all of the available styles, with thumbnails showing each style’s effect on the image. Here you’ll find access to control points, color filters, specific film responses, and a stylizing menu that lets you tone and vignette.
#Realgrain vs exposure pro
You can work with Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro on two levels: You can use the one-click presets in the Style Browser (left-hand side) or you can manually shift gears by using the controls on the right-hand side. The plug-in costs $199.95, and works with 8- and 16-bit images, RGB, CMYK, and LAB color spaces, and is compatible with Photoshop’s Smart Filters feature. When making the final monochrome conversions, Silver Efex Pro uses algorithms to protect against creating unwanted artifacts. By placing points on specific parts of the photo you can control how much of the effect is applied to only those areas. The plug-in uses Nik Software’s patented and insanely cool U Point technology, borrowed from Nikon’s Capture NX software, that allows selective control of an image’s brightness, contrast, and structure, adding another level of control. In the Film Types area on the right-hand side of the stunningly designed interface, you’ll also find controls for Sensitivity and Tonal Curve, allowing fine-tuning of the conversion. Nik Software’s ( Silver Efex Pro is a Photoshop- and Aperture-compatible plug-in that offers emulations of 18 different black and white films from Agfa, Fuji, Ilford, and Kodak, along with a grain engine that mimics the traditional silver halide process. You can always use the Black and White New Adjustment Layer (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Black & White) in Adobe’s Photoshop and it’s a pretty good tool as far as it goes, but this story is about monochrome conversion plug-ins.
One of my favorite ways to convert a color file into monochrome is to use Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. As a creative medium, traditionalists may still call it “monochrome” while digital imagers may prefer the computerese “grayscale,” but, to paraphrase Billy Joel, “It’s still black and white to me.”
#Realgrain vs exposure full
Yup, it’s a color file without any color! You can also capture your images in color, then use any of the software that I’ll introduce you to and convert that full color photograph into a monochromatic one. Some digital cameras have Black and White or Sepia modes for capturing images directly in monochrome but more often than not they capture these photographs in RGB. One of the advantages of working with monochromatic digital photographs is the original image can come from many sources.
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