![]() One you have the effect you like (ie Wet Plate) you can select various pre sets, add additional elements (Light leak) and then you can adjust elements and filters, so you can for instance choose from various different Dust & scratches, they each have a drop down mean and you can adjust the strength of each as well, making a truly unique filter which you can then save as your own preset. There are presets, tools, tool combinations (that also had presets) and then on the right is all the additional adjustments you can make noise, light leaks, dust & scratches, lens vignette and more. This is what it looks like once launched. It is loaded into Photoshop or Lightroom as a plug in and then you can access add filters to the image from within those programs. This gives me access at my fingertips to really old style camera effects, wet plates, blur, double exposure, light leaks and other cool stuff. Wow, this is such a cool program, I had no idea. There is a brief blurb and some videos about it here. I adored them, HDR only got used a few times, but it was fabulous, especially the B&W HDR effects! However when my trial ran out, I did miss them, but they were expensive and money only goes so far, right? Then I had heard that it been bought out and taken over by Google (is it me or are they spreading their wings, this isn’t a bid for world domination is it? ), and they have re packaged it as the Google Nik Collection, you get everything by Nik for one reasonable cost AUD$169.00, but there is a free trial if you are not sure.Īnyway, I recently decided to spread my creative wings and play with one such Program I had never used Analog Efex Pro 2. I while ago I trialled some Nik Software, HDR Pro 4, Silver Effects Pro 2 and Colour Efex Pro 4. So if you are a Photoshop or Lightroom user download the collection and dive in.I don’t often review PC Software, I have done Smart Phone Apps, but Lightroom and Photoshop have been well and truly done, and by people who know far more than me. You have so many options available from light leaks, to dust & scratches, bokeh and many more. I really would like to see more people use it and play around and get real creative. It’s like this is where Instagram created their filters. If you like Instagram and all the filter choices, you will love Analog Efex Pro. It could be a “one click” and your done edit if you use the presets, but I really like to play with the controls and see what I can create on my own. The double exposure effect is a lot of fun and again one might think the “masking” in PS would produce the same effect, but AEP is so much more fun. So yes you could do it in Photoshop, but the feel of the end visual seems different to me. Now I know if you are a Photoshop user your first thought might be that “it can all be done in Photoshop” and I would answer “yes & no.” Well actually “yes” but Nik’s algorithms are a lot different from Adobe’s and seem to produce the end results in a unique way with a different feel. It basically gives you all these old camera kits from the film era and lets you create some really awesome stuff. ![]() ![]() It was at that time I started to explore this fun little gem. ![]() Not until one day I was trying to open Color Efex Pro in Photoshop and I accidentally opened Analog Efex Pro in the fly out menu. Actually the truth be told I never even opened it. So when I downloaded the whole collection I seen Analog Efex Pro but I thought I had no use for it. This was long before Google made the collection available to the public. In my last post I talked about how I had bought just two products from Nik, but soon after Google acquired the Nik collection they sent download links to previous Nik customers for the whole Nik collection. Let’s talk a little about Google’s Nik Analog Efex Pro plugin for Lightroom or Photoshop. ![]()
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