Silver Efex Pro
by Nik Software
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Software Reviews of Silver Efex Pro
Customer Review: Easy to unleash your creative side
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this after playing around with the trial version. It is quite amazing how easy this is to use and the results that you can get. I compared some of the results to my old 35mm black and white pictures; you can produce results that are very hard to distinguish from the original. The other nice feature is that you can easily add special effects (antique, sepia, etc) and get some really special pictures. The price may be a bit high for some, but not for those who would normally take the time to spruce up their photos a bit. Highly Recommended! Customer Review: nik silver effects can improve your monochrome editing
Summary: 4 Stars
This software can produce stunning monochrome photographs with a little practice. you need a good photo to start, preferably with some large structural object as the central focus.
It is best to do editing for lighting before using nik. I use levels in photoshop elements 7.0.
there is a wide variety of styles, filters, and film emulating modes to choose from. The u-point technology allows for quick editing of selected areas of the photo. the price is high compared to photoshop elements. If you are selling prints like I am you can quickly pay for this software.
To see examples of my edits, including some originals take a look at pbase.com/xtranch/nik_monochrome_edits.
Customer Review: Silver Efex Pro
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an excellent product. It makes B&W post-processing fast and efficient. It is a very good companion to PSCS3.Customer Review: Awesome black and white plug-in for PS and Aperture
Summary: 4 Stars
Even though this product is quite pricey, if you love black and white, it is definitely worth it. Gives you amazing control over converting color images to b&w, using predefined templates, additional templates from their website, and also custom setting you can make, and save. Absolutely fantastic. I am running it on an intel Mac Pro w/ 8 Gig of Ram. It is very fast when launched from w/in photoshop. I only gave it 4 stars out of 5 because it is incredibly slow working w/ large 12 and 14 bit raw files when launched from Apple Aperture (but fine from w/in photoshop). A number of people on the web have complained about this and Nik has yet to acknowledge this as a problem. I even offered to help them trouble shoot it to find out where the memory/performance issue was coming from and they didn't respond to my offer. One solution seems to be to launch the plug-in in 8 bit photoshop mode instead of 16 bit but that is just a work around, not a real solution as other Nik software works fine w/ photoshop in 16 bit mode. Overall a great product, I highly recommend you download the 14 day demo and give it a try, and then buy it if you like it as much as I did. The Aperture slow performance was almost a deal-breaker for me but I purchased it anyway knowing that Nik would eventually have to fix that one problem area.
UPDATE: 5 stars. Nik has released version 1.001 which addresses the Aperture slowness problem. Nice and fast now. Highly recommended.