By Leonard Norwitz | How-To
While NIK Film Effects filters can certainly be used to rescue dodgy shots or to create wowish effects, my default approach is to employ the tools in NIK Color Efx and Silver Efx, just as I make use of PhotoShop: to realize the print (paper or digital) that I have in mind when I click […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
I recently spent 12 days in London (yeah, Volume 2 of InSight: London is on the way, with touristy routes explored to complete the Off the Beaten Track volume 1!). During my scouting of Canary Wharf, a pedestrian passage immediately shouted Space: 1999 ! When I returned home a searched for images of the Eagle […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | Review
In my previous post, I took Nik Software’s Silver Efex 4 for a spin, really not expecting to be as impressed as I was. Various sites in and around Marseilles were used as a setting for the pictures used for the B&W conversions and the results were so good I decided that Color Efex 4 […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | Review
You know the warm feeling of genius you first felt at the click of an Instagram button when your very average snapshot of the next door neighbour’s dog was magically turned into a David Hamilton masterpiece of a soft focus poochery ? You know how quickly the feeling evaporated when you found millions of such […]
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