Black & White: Silver Efx Pro™ Software Plug-In

Challenge #2 in the B&W: Shades of Darkness series. Hosted by RickBuddy.

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Black & White Photos processed with NIK Software Silver Efx Pro software plugin. If you don't own it, you can get a free trial that works as a plug in for Apple Aperture, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop software: http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php Once you try it, you may want to keep it around for this B&W series.

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Announced:

Monday, 9th January, 2012 (GMT)

Submissions:

Monday, 16th January, 2012 – Sunday, 22nd January, 2012 (GMT)

Voting:

Monday, 23rd January, 2012 – Sunday, 29th January, 2012 (GMT)

Processing rules:

Use the SilverFX Pro plug-in to post process any photo — without a cat — that you believe will give you a winning result.
You will only be cheating yourself if you do not use or try this software.

Capture date rules:

Images must be shot after the announcement date of the challenge.

Additional rules:

Extra Credit: Voters. add at least half a star if the entrant adds comments on some of the techniques used to post-process the entry.
Subtract Credit: Subtract credit of the entry is simply a desaturated color photo.
Remember: No cats allowed.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

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47 entries

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1450 votes

Voting results: 47 entries Slideshow of 4 1 Page: 4 Rows:

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Sample entries

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Challenge comments

Total comments: 3

Congrats to all. A little disappointed in the fact I thought this was a Black & White series and a sepia toned image won out. However, Congrats to the overall winner. I enjoyed the introduction to the software plug-in.

1 upvote

Wow!

Looks like people put some good effort into these images. I hope some of you who hadn't used this software before had some fun — and maybe learned something.

I know I learn something every time I log on and see what you did.

It will be tough on the voters. Here's to plenty of 5.0s and none of those nasty .5s.

Have a great day!

Rick

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"Use the SilverFX Pro plug-in to post process any photo — without a cat".

Cat :D

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Total comments: 3

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