Alien Skin Exposure-2

[Attila]

2$ film+ Yashica Electro 35 GTN+Epson V500+Alien Skin Exposure 2

This plugin can emulate many films, I tried some Ilford and Velvia emulation.

[Jesito]

I guess the last one is the Velvia emulation, isn't it?.
Nice resuts, Attila!.

Jes.

[Attila]

All color is velvia emulation yes, I will shoot one roll velvia later in same place and I will compare I really like this plugin, how about b&w ?

[A G Photography]

It's my preferred plugin (and about the only one I use, while the others usually stay there just to gather dust on the hard disk).

Remember not to use levels or curves before using it, actually it made them unnecessary 99% of the times.

Some emulations are a bit too much pushed up, Velvias for sure, I usually tone them a bit down to make them more faithful to what I am accostumed to see on the real slides. I guess they tuned Velvias more similar to Lomo output than from serious camera with serious lenses

Also grain emulation is something you have to tune depending on the size of the image (it's too weak for most of the B&W emulations if you use 10 MP images).

[Attila]

Thank you! I will follow your instructions!

[Rob Leslie]

You may find this of interest.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t19545.html

The easy way of doing any Colour emulation is in Channel mixer.
A well tried setting for Velvia is to up the channel colour to 120% and drop the other three colours by 10%. E.g. red channel Red 120% Green -10% Blue -10%, Blue channel Blue 120% etc.
My own experience is no one setting or action can work with all images, there are too many variables (This is the problem with most Plug ins) so doing the adjustment in Channel Mixer or Curves to suit your individual image is a better option.
As mentioned in the discussion I have linked to the preferred way of doing any Colour emulation or adjustment is at the RAW file conversion, this also gives you the option of changing the Colour Space which often provides the results you are looking for. Eg Try Pro Photo colour space for RAW conversion then convert to your finished image to Adobe or sRGB latter.

[A G Photography]

Rob, Alienskin plugin is less "dumb" that you imagined. You can fine tune saturation, luminosity, contrast, the RGB channels singularly, the contrast curve and the grain emulation.

Of course if it would be possible to do all this in RAW it would be better, this is because Adobe is working on a plugin interface for Lightroom.

[Rob Leslie]

[A G Photography]

How can you apply Alienskin Exposure directly to the Raw file? I admit I didn't try Lightroom 2 beta still, is it possible with it?