Lightroom will now prompt you with
three choices. Here, choose Edit a Copy
with Lightroom Adjustments and
then click on the Edit button.
You will now see the Silver Efex Pro
2 screen (Picture 2). The image you
have selected for conversion will now
appear in monochrome and at the
bottom right of the image, you will
see the new file name (Picture 2�1).
This will take the form <original
filename>-Edit.Tif
What has happened is that Silver Efex
Pro 2 has converted the image into
monochrome and then has given the
original file name an extension to
differentiate it. The new file will be in
Tiff format. This will be automatically
Picture 1: The Main Menu of Lightroom. The yellow arrow points to the Photo Menu.Picture 2: The screen of Silver Efex Pro 2. The symbol �
indicates arrow numbers.
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Picture 2�2 Presets
Picture 2�3 Thumbnails of presets
Picture 2�4 Brightness
Picture 2�5 Contrast
Picture 2�6 Structure
Picture 2�7 Shadows and Highlights
Picture 2�8 Selective Adjustments, Control Points
Picture 2�9 Colour Filter
Picture 2�10 Film Types (Simulation)
Picture 2�11 Finishing Adjustments
Picture 2�12 Cancel and Saveadded to your
Lightroom
Library and
will now
appear as a
part of the
Filmstrip.Global
Adjustments:
First let us
look at the commands that have overall
effect on the image.Presets: The most interesting feature
of Silver Efex Pro 2 is the ‘Preset
Library’ (Picture 2�2). There are no
less than 38 of them available and each
processes the image in a particular
way. These are also grouped as Classic,
Modern, etc. but it is best to use the All
option which shows all the 38 presets.Below this (Picture 2�3) is the
thumbnail area. Here, you can see
thumbnails each with a number and
titles like Neutral, High Contrast, Fine
Art, Full Structure, etc. Each shows how
your image will be rendered when that
preset is applied. You can select anyone
of them as per your wish and therendered image will appear now in the
central area. Since there are as many as
38 presets available, it is quite possible
that one of these will satisfy your needs
without any further processing. Indeed,
this is what happens in most cases.The right hand panel can be used if you
are not satisfied with the results you
get when you use the presets. If this is
the case, now you use the sliders from
the right panel to tweak the settings.
You have here Brightness (Picture
2 �4) and Contrast (Picture 2�5) sliders
which adjust overall exposure and
contrast. Apart from this you have the
Structure (Picture 2�6) slider. The last
controls the mid-tone contrast like the
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