![]() This will give you access to the entire Nik Collection. When you first open a RAW file in Adobe Photoshop, you start in Bridge, which is your RAW decode process. I like to do as much work as I can to the RAW file, which for most photos means DxO PhotoLab or Adobe Lightroom. So I’ll start with Adobe Photoshop so every adjustment can be a smart adjustment that can be re-edited at any time.īut I know I’m going to apply a bunch of Nik tools to this one. It’ll make for a big file, but I like the flexibility.įor this particular photo, there isn’t much to do. It’s well exposed, but some of the highlights - notably on the white paint over his eye on the right side of the image where the sun is hitting - are a little bright, so I’ll bring those down with the Highlights slider. Next I want to do something that’s pure creative. I know that eventually I’ll be turning this image back and white, but before that I want to add some kind of analog effects to this. ![]() ![]() In fact, it looks a little bit mystical to me - perfect for this photo! But notice how the swirly second exposure is covering his eyes? I’m not quite sure what, so playing around in Analog Efex Pro should be a lot of fun!Īfter a bit of playing around, I found a double exposure preset that I thought might make a cool, artsy B&W image (remember I’ll add the B&W later). I can’t mask elements out inside the filter (it’s two of the effects, the Double Exposure and the Bokeh that are creating that issue). So I went ahead and applied the filter, then duplicated the entire image + filter stack in Photoshop, opened the Analog Efex filter again on the bottom layer, and disabled those two filters. ![]()
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