Silver Efex Pro is a plug-in for photo editors that will help you make fine adjustments on black and white photographs. The host applications for this plug-in are Adobe Photoshop CS3 through CS5, Elements 6 through 10, Lightroom 2.6 through 3.0 or later versions, and Apple Aperture 2.1.4 through 3.0, and later.
The plug-in is intuitive in its use and offers several options for processing black and white images. The global adjustments include brightness, contrast, structure and tonality protection. Other options allow you to modify color filters, adjusting grain, sensitivity, levels and curves, and others. The program also gives you the possibility to preset adjustments, by selecting them out of three categories of styles: modern, classic and vintage.
Another very important and appreciable feature of this application is that it enables you to set control points, so that you may adjust brightness, contrast, and structure in selected areas of the photograph, without affecting other areas with these modifications. This is made possible as a result of implementing the U Point technology, and it ensures the photo editing process is highly flexible.
In conclusion, this plug-in brilliantly demonstrates how a sufficiently comprehensive set of editing options helps you obtain an amazing variance in quality between two instances of the same black and white photograph.
v2.0 [Feb 24, 2011]
Specially Developed Algorithms
Achieve incredible results faster than ever with never-
before-seen advancements in black and white controls
such as Dynamic Brightness, Fine Structure, Soft Contrast, Amplify Whites, Amplify Blacks, and our legendary Grain Engine.
Intuitive History Browser
The new History Browser enables you to explore all of the features in Silver Efex Pro 2 and easily compare edits, with the freedom to try different looks, undo adjustments at any time, and compare different edited history states of your image.
Dynamic Brightness
Intelligently adjust brightness in your images using the new
Dynamic Brightness control. This unique new tool adapts the brightness effect to existing tonalities in an image, creating spectacular results.
Amplify Blacks and Whites
Accentuate blacks and whites in your image for greater impact by increasing the presence of highlights and shadows adaptively throughout the image. Unique contrast effects are easily achieved without blocking up darker areas of an image or blowing out lighter ones.
Structure and Fine Structure
Soft Contrast
Natural Image Borders
Selective Color
Multi-Threaded, 64-bit, GPU Processing
