Must have plugins...

[The23rdman]

What are yours?

I've been bowled over by Silver Efex pro and have just invested in Alien Skin Blow Up as I can't afford a new more powerful body right now.

What do you consider important and why?

 

[rayman64]

hi
i use silver/colour effex pro some whackey effects but used carefully the black&white conversions are excelent
for noise removal prefer Noiseware pro great results
for hdr photos i use photomattix pro by far the easiest to use
and imho nik sharpener pro for selective sharpening has got to be the best and the plug in i could not live without

 

[Mark.A]

I'd say NoiseNinja is my only 'must have' plugin. Everything else is just for speed/convenience. I do use other plugins but there's nothing they do that I couldn't do in PS without them, they just do it a lot quicker and it's easier to adjust the results.

 

[The23rdman]

hi
i use silver/colour effex pro some whackey effects but used carefully the black&white conversions are excelent
for noise removal prefer Noiseware pro great results
for hdr photos i use photomattix pro by far the easiest to use
and imho nik sharpener pro for selective sharpening has got to be the best and the plug in i could not live without

I've just downloaded Sharpener pro for a trial. How much better than USM is it?

 

[swanseamale47]

Noisewhere pro.
Silver effects
PK sharpner
I use these pretty much every day, would hate to have to manage without them.

 

[recrudesce]

PTLens

 

[Chaz Photos]

Just the Russell Brown fee ones works good in Bridge (he is adobe king man)

 

[rayman64]

nik sharpener pro once set up i feel its a lot better you can paint the amount of sharpening you reqire to certain areas and leave others untouched

 

[Chaz Photos]

nik sharpener pro once set up i feel its a lot better you can paint the amount of sharpening you reqire to certain areas and leave others untouched

I do this with layers and mask

 

[cowasaki]

How much better is Sharpener pro? How much is it?

 

[Mark.A]

You'd be better learning to use masks and layers with USM.

 

[stokecity_m]

Guys, a little help please - i've downloaded the trial of Silver Efex Pro.

How do i find it in photoshop?

 

[Chaz Photos]

You'd be better learning to use masks and layers with USM.

And high pass filter

 

[rayman64]

Guys, a little help please - i've downloaded the trial of Silver Efex Pro.

How do i find it in photoshop?

it should be in with filters near the bottom of the list

 

[stokecity_m]

do you mean in the drop down filter menu?
Can't see it

 

[cowasaki]

do you mean in the drop down filter menu?
Can't see it

Maybe it dropped off instead of down

EDIT: Its one of the top level menus!

 

[stokecity_m]

using CS4 if that makes a difference?

 

[rayman64]

using CS4 if that makes a difference?

did you load it directly to cs4 pluggins sometimes they can go astray

 

[stokecity_m]

did you load it directly to cs4 pluggins sometimes they can go astray

Dunno:shake:

just ran the exe file for silver efex

 

[rayman64]

Dunno:shake:

just ran the exe file for silver efex

go into your programe files, adobe,cs4,pluggins if it aint in there try reloading
hope this helps

 

[stokecity_m]

go into your programe files, adobe,cs4,pluggins if it aint in there try reloading
hope this helps

yep it's there

 

[rayman64]

yep it's there

it should be in the filter section at the top 6th along under nik software only active when you have a image open

 

[stokecity_m]

nope

just got the following

Artistic
Blur
brush strokes
Distort
Noise
Pixelate
Render
Sharpen
Sketch
Stylize
texture
Video
Other.

 

[cowasaki]

Is it under "other"

 

[stokecity_m]

under other is -

Custom
High Pass
Maximum
Minimum
Offset

 

[stokecity_m]

sorted - it seems i've got two photoshops on my pc - one normal and one 64bit

Anyway it works in the normal one

Cheers guys.

 

[rayman64]

under other is -

Custom
High Pass
Maximum
Minimum
Offset

very curious if you go to the help dropdown and mouse over about plug in that tells you exactly what pluggins are loaded

 

[The23rdman]

I understand how to selectively sharpen with USM. I've downloaded the trial version of Sharpener pro and it seems interesting. I do like the interface of Niks software, but feel they could massively improve the software by making the control points more adaptable with freeform selections rather than just circles.