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How to use the Google Nik Collection Analog Efex Pro Camera Kit

November 1, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

How to use the Google Nik Collection Analog Efex Pro Camera Kit

Analog Efex Pro is a brand new addition to the Google Nik Collection, the set of plug-ins for Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom and Aperture that Google took over when it bought out Nik Software. You can find out more at the Google Nik Collection website. I rate this as the best set of plug-ins ever made, and practically a must-have for digital … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Analog Efex Pro, Google, Nik Collection, Software Tagged With: Bokeh, Borders and frames, Film looks, Light leaks, Presets, Textures

Create a dirty Kodachrome with Perfect Photo Suite!

August 16, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Create a dirty Kodachrome with Perfect Photo Suite!

Photographers are never happy. We couldn't stop complaining about our dirty, faded colour transparencies when they were all we had, and we couldn't wait to swap to nice, clean, everlasting digital images... only now they're the norm, we miss our grubby old transparencies. So I'm going to use Perfect Effects to try to recreate that old … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: ON1, Perfect Suite Tagged With: Borders and frames, Film looks, Light leaks, Textures

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Luminar ‘Jupiter’ announced with speed and RAW improvements

April 12, 2018 By Rod Lawton 6 Comments

Adobe introduces ‘profiles’ in major update

Adobe introduces ‘profiles’ in major update

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MacPhun Luminar 2018 announced

MacPhun Luminar 2018 announced

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DxO acquires the Nik Collection and launches DxO PhotoLab

DxO acquires the Nik Collection and launches DxO PhotoLab

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