The film effects section of my last article on Aperture presets reminded me that I really like the film effects in nik Color Efex Pro and nik Silver Efex Pro.
I thought I’d try to emulate them in Aperture with a set a presets, starting with black and white film.
Download the presets here. Current version at time of this writing is 0.4.
(Note that my friends of Aperture Users @ Flickr are thinking of creating a website to house presets so I don’t know how long I’ll keep updating this. In the meantime, I added Pavel Sigarteu’s SinCity, El TiDY’s presets, and Ian Wood’s Aperture 2 Image Presets Project to the download.)
In order to show the B&W film effects, I hacked in an extension to my IMG Mouseover plugin. Above the image there’s a control panel where you can click to see the effect of the preset (and compare it to Silver Efex Pro):
- Kodak ISO 32 Panatomic X
- Ilford Pan F Plus 50
- Agfa APX Pro 100
- Fuji Neopan ACROS 100
- Ilford Delta 100 Pro
- Kodak 100 TMAX Pro
- Ilford FP4 Plus 125
- Kodak Plus-X 125PX Pro
- Agfa APX 400
- Ilford Delta 400 Pro
- Ilford HP5 Plus 400
- Ilford XP 2 Super 400
- Kodak 400 TMAX Pro
- Kodak Tri-X 400TX Pro
- Kodak BW 400CN Pro
- Fuji Neopan Pro 1600
- Ilford Delta 3200 Pro
- Kodak P3200 TMAX Pro
Tagged, Financial District, San Francisco, California
Leica M8, Cosina-Voigtländer NOKTON 35mm F1.2 Aspherical
1/30sec, ISO160, 35mm (47mm)
Click on the controls above to test the different film presets. Mouse rollover contain images processed in Nik Silver Efex Pro.
(Note that Aperture has decided to have a brain fart and replace all my photos even if they haven’t been changed at all. This breaks the images in Flickr. I tried my best to fix this. If any are broken or incorrect, please tell me in the comments below and I’ll fix them.)
Continue reading about How to use Aperture presets and about black and white film after the jump