![]() However, they didn’t change a little annoyance that I had with the workflow that sort of threw me for a loop. The updated version has a ton of options to play around with and that makes creating an image really fun. A lot of the cool efex can be made simply by experiments with the different effects and this really helps you explore things that you might not have chosen before. You can still vary the style within the layers. Which is something that I liked when using the older version. old versionĪnother cool feature is that you can choose a “I’m feeling lucky” feature that will give a you some random and interesting results with just a click of the button. There are now cameras to highlight the different features like motion, black and white, as well as subtle bokeh and a lomo “supersampler” style multilens effect. They have added also a lot more styles of cameras or effect styles beyond the wet plate, classic, toy and vintage camera settings that they offered before. They have added in motion blur that really can make some interesting shots. With the new version, they have made a lot of changes. However, the real advantage here is that you can create some pretty cool “efex” without having to get too heavy into photoshop. Some will say that the light-leaky blown out shots are crap and for the most part, I do too. Now, are you still putting dust and crap over your shots? Well yes, but you get the ability to control the amount and the tonality of the crap they you put on your shot. Rather than going for realistic shots or at least slightly “over saturated” realistic shots, you get a chance to create a new style of camera from the ground up and create a unique image. However, after playing around with the plugin after my trip to Gayaland, I sort of changed my mind. ![]() I thought that it was the NIK version of instagram or hipstamatic. When they updated the collection adding the analog plugin I was skeptical. If you don’t know already, I am a huge fan of the NIK Collection and HDR Efex Pro 2 and Color Efex. If you are unfamiliar with what I am talking about then check out google’s NIK Software package or the post that I wrote about it before reading on. I must admit that I was a little surprised as the first version came out not too long ago. The recent big news in the photo world is that google just updated their analog efex plugin.
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