Comments on: a little less gray ..

By: Neil vN

Neil vN — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:43:25 +0000

I’m sure you could create something similar in Aperture. Play around.

Neil vN

By: Dave Pratt

Dave Pratt — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:39:16 +0000

Hi Neil,
Just come across your work, well done just great. Love the warm B&W effect. I am just new to Aperture, can this preset be applied? Look forward to hear from you. Taking delivery of Fujifilm x100 looking forward to use it at a wedding shot.

Regards
Dave

By: Marisa Strauss

Marisa Strauss — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:55:57 +0000

Thank you, thank you for this tip! I saved these settings and was able to use the preset successfully already! Your blog is wonderful!

By: Mika

Mika — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:04:32 +0000

Antonio,
altough ACR was originally intented for serving in a RAW workflow, it’s an amazing tool for several adjustments on JPEG files either. Sure, for high quality images it’s the usual way to convert to JPEG at the end of the line, but it is good to know, that ACR can handle adjustments on JPEGs very quickly too.

Concerning your question about presets and syncronize: Check out the menus in ACR and you will be able to figure it out for yourself.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:25:14 +0000

Antonio .. I apply these presets to the RAW files. I don’t apply them to JPGs. By the time I’ve generated the JPGs, most of my editing work is done.

Neil vN

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:00:20 +0000

Thanks for all the tips. I am an amateur photographer…but wants to get good at it…..really good at it. All my friends and people I don’t really knopw thinks I am a professional because I pop my camera and start taking pictures at every event I can find and after give the photos to the host. It gives me a chance to practice and get to show my work….which is very cool. Soon I will have my website on line to show case my work.

Well enough…..to my question. You said that for your B&W you create a preset in ACR? I learned that ACR works only with RAW. Good, but how you create a “Preset” on ACR and then apply them to all of your B&W’s/?

Thanks
Antonio Arias

By: planet neil - tangents » model - Seregon

planet neil - tangents » model - Seregon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:39:15 +0000

[...] bit of credit here too.) The post-processing of the image involved converting the RAW file to a warm-tinted B&W image using a preset in ACR that I like. After touching up a few blemishes, I used a Photoshop action [...]

By: Chico do Vale

Chico do Vale — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:27:10 +0000

Thanks Neil for your tips, they will help me a lot to process B&W photos. Regards, Chico do Vale.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:47:02 +0000

Eric ..

I don’t purposely make the darker areas of an image that dark. I guess it just happens as part of my workflow in editing the images in how I like the images to look. Personal taste.

I do use clarity. It controls the local contrast, and it can often make an image pop more. But I do find it makes skin appear ‘dirty’ if used at too high a setting.

Neil vN

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:13:47 +0000

Hi Neil!

Back to colors :
I often notice the dark part your photos are often totally dark. Is it because of contrast or do you intentionnaly cut the low part of the histogram ?

Second question : do you use “clarity” for color photos?