Black and White with Silver Efex

Black and White with Silver Efex
In this video we look at producing black and white conversions manually with Nik Silver Efex and DxO PhotoLab 7.
There are three conversions of the same photograph taken on New Years Eve in Lewes, UK.
One showing a straightforward conversion with no bells or whistles, one showing a conversion with focus on detail and realism and a third with focus on drama making the most of the sun cutting through the clouds after a rainstorm.
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Software that I use for Post Processing:
DxO Pure RAW (Pre Processing When Necessary)
Adobe Lightroom (Catalog Management and Editing)
DxO PhotoLab (RAW Processing)
Adobe Photoshop (Layer Based Processing)
Nik Collection (post edit polish)
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[@MedusaJellyFish300]

Thank you again, Chris, for always giving us your beautiful photography knowledge. You are a very kind ❤🎉❤🎉

[@chriswrightphotographs]

You’re very kind, it’s a pleasure!

[@DylanPStephens]

Hi Chris. I’m following all of these videos with interest. It’s great to see the versatility and potential of PL7/Nik … thanks for the informative and well demonstrated tutorials!

[@chriswrightphotographs]

Glad you like them! Thanks!

[@alexyphotoman9716]

Very nice - good explanations and great music - thanks! As a digression, after watching your previous video on sharpening, I went back and compared my sharpening results using both Topaz AI and Nik 7 sharpen output. To my eyes, the Nik7 results were better. There is certainly more fine control with the sharpening using Nik 7.

[@chriswrightphotographs]

Thank you, glad it is useful. That's interesting about Topaz and Sharpen Output, I was impressed with the New Nik Collection update, Sharpen Output is certainly very effective.

[@grantking4681]

Chris, have only just bought Nik 7 after thinking about it for years but just never got around to it till now. Sadly for me getting 7 means l miss out on 'Perspective' (View Point) which was with 6 but removed from 7. I do realise l can get it as a stand-alone 'extra' but l'm not interested in buying it separately especially when you consider it was included in a complete bundle only a few weeks ago. Any thoughts about being able to get it separately (in a Nik 6 maybe) as opposed to having to fork out the $79 while it's on the 20th anniversary sale (back to $99 in a day or so). Oh, and that's US dollars, for me in Australia that around $125 or when the price goes back to normal, the $99 means around $150+.

[@chriswrightphotographs]

That’s exasperating! I don’t think Nik 6 is available any longer and unless it’s sourced from DxO there would be no support for it. I found it worthwhile to get Viewpoint 4, it’s very good standalone or as a plugin. The current offer is objectively pretty good, next likely window would be Black Friday when most software gets discounted but whether it will match 20% I have no idea.