Tag Archives: Monochrome Photography

Silver Efex Pro Version 2 now available

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Nik Software has finally released Version 2 of its popular Silver Efex Pro application for converting colour images into black and white work. Having used version one for some time, I’ve been eagerly awaiting this upgrade and will be putting it through its paces over the next few weeks. There are many new features in...

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Capture One Pro 6 Head to Head with Lightroom 3 for Monochrome Work

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After I completed my earlier review of Capture On Pro 6 in a black and white conversion test with Silver Efex Pro, I had some feedback from several people who asked me to add Lightroom 3 into the mix to see how converting the same RAW file would work out by comparison with the other...

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Capture One Pro 6 Versus Silver Efex Pro for Monochrome Work

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This review is a follow on from my earlier ‘First Impressions’ article looking at Capture One Pro RAW processor’s new Black and White conversion capabilities in their latest, Version 6, release. In this fuller review, I’ve compared it directly with an equivalent workflow in Adobe Camera Raw 6 with Photoshop CS5 and the popular Silver...

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