Ten recipes have been added to Color Efex Pro. I gave some of the presets a try within Color Efex Pro 4 and Silver Efex Pro 2, and to be honest, I really didn’t care for most of them. 42 New Creative Presets Forty-two presets grouped together in a new En Vogue suite, have been added to the Nik Collection’s 156 effects and filters. 03 Saving over the originalĪnalog Efex Pro now checks that you really do want to save your new settings and replace the old ones. Nik Collection 2 now comes with a total of 42 new presets under a new En Vogue category for Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 2, HDR Efex Pro 2 and Analog Efex Pro 2.
Now that I’ve made the change to my image, I can save the new settings over the old custom preset – I just click on the icon (circled in red) in the bottom right corner of the preset’s thumbnail. In fact you can click and drag in the image to reposition the effect so that it doesn’t obscure a key element in the picture, for example, or look exactly the same each time. I’ve selected one of my custom presets in the left sidebar (‘Wet plate black and white’) so that I can change the Dirt & Scratches effect in the panel on the right.Īnd here’s an option that you could easily miss – clicking on a Dirt & Scratches effect doesn’t just centre the texture in the image and fix it there. Buy Collection TWO for £17. 01 Modify a presetĮven when you save a custom preset, it’s not too late to change it. Use them as starting points, slide those sliders and make your own art. Along the way I’ll show a couple of tricks I’ve learned that aren’t immediately obvious.Īnalog Efex Pro’s built-in presets are displayed in the Cameras panel in the left sidebar any you create yourself are stored in the Custom panel beneath it. You’ll see I’ve already created some custom presets as they say in the best cookery shows, here are some I made earlier. Open a photo in Nik Analog Click Imported from the menu at right Then click on the + symbol. They are NOT presets for Lightroom or Photoshop alone. Buy Collection TWO for 17.99 These presets are compatible with any version of the NIK Collection that includes the Analog Efex Pro 2 plug-in, whether the later Google versions or subsequent DxO version. I’m starting with this everyday still life shot on a digital SLR, with the aim of finding a variety of new analog film ‘looks’. Installing Flypaper Analog Presets This is done slightly differently from above. Use them as starting points, slide those sliders and make your own art. So this time I’m going to take look at how you can quickly build up a collection in your own style, by adapting existing effects and by modifying and duplicating your own. It comes with a selection of preset camera and film effects to reproduce the look of traditional analog photography, but I’ve been spending some time trying them out and using the Analog Efex Pro Camera Kit (see part 2 of this Analog Efex Pro mini-series) to make my own, and I think you can do just as well by designing your Analog Efex Pro custom presets yourself. Google’s brand new Analog Efex Pro plug-in is the latest component in Google’s Nik Collection.
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