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10/01/2012 01:25:04 AM · #26 |
here is an example of what an SEP adjustment layer set to luminocity can do. The difference is fairly subtle but gave my rockwell a bit more of a painterly look:
Unedited except crop to get rid of my messy basement :)
Now the background cleaned up slightly with dodge and a topaz adjust layer (clarity preset) not on full opacity around 90% I think, it's almost there but not quite:
Then after a bit more cleaning of the background and the floor, I used SEP2 on luminocity adjustment, with fine arts high key preset with my own adjustments added afterward (otherwise the processing would be too harsh) Now it is looking painterly without overdoing it.
As a note to have a SEP layer make any sort of difference to an image you must do some adjusting to the image not just simply convert it to b&w. I find the things that made the biggest difference are how much structure you have added, how much contrast you have added and if you did any adjustments with the curves. |
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10/01/2012 04:32:18 AM · #27 |
i use aperture for the majority of my work with teh exception of my nudes and boudoir work which i use lightroom 4
only fire photoshop up for expert editing challenges or heavy cloning or mani ssharpening technique etc
i have full nik and full topaz packages but silver efex is 90 used
i use lr for nudes work as the ability to stack brushes up is good when you need to soften something more than once, in aperture you have to duplicate the image then apply teh skin softening again where as in lightroom you can just overlay
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