Presets will help you craft classic black-and-white shots using the superb Silver Efex Pro plugin. Nik Collection 3 By DxO includes brilliantly creative plugins like Color Efex Pro, for injecting color and atmosphere into your photos.

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Being the generous fellow that I am, this action is available as a free download below. You'll also pick up a thing or two on how to use Lightroom and Photoshop together and on the advantages of Smart Objects and Smart Filters. At the end of the video, you'll see me automate the workflow with an action that I created. If I can't get the job done with one of my own Lightroom Black & White presets, Silver Efex is where I turn to.īut, did you know that you can also use Silver Efex Pro to bring more life to your colour images? And that you can use Silver Efex Pro's Control Points to easily Dodge & Burn those same images? I'll show you how in the following video. I already endorsed these plug-ins when they still cost an arm and a leg (well, € 500 to be precise), and now that Google has made them completely free, that hasn't changed. If you're a regular reader of this blog or my books ( English link, Dutch link), you know that I'm big fan of the Nik Collection by Google in general and the Black & White plug-in Silver Efex Pro 2 in particular.

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