hello I'm Robin Whalley welcome to lenscraft the other day an email came in
letting me know there was a new release of the net collection today I'm going to
demonstrate the new film simulations in the Nik collection 2.5 and then show you
how you can modify them and starting with my image open in photoshop although
you can use any application that supports editing with Nick
I'll then launch Nick color effects pro using the Nick selective tool you can
also launch the Nick plugins from the Photoshop filters menu it doesn't make
any difference know that I had the image in color
effects Pro I'm going to add a filter from the filters library the filter you
want is the film effects modern branded
if I switch to the split-screen mode you can see the effect of the filter using
the default settings
now look at the top of the filter and you'll see a drop-down list this lists
all the film simulations in the filter including the five new ones in Nick 2.5
if I move down the list with my mouse you can see a preview of the simulation
on the main image for this image I'll use the new fuji FP 100c option I can
then use the brightness and contrast sliders to lighten the image and
increase the contrast but when I lighten the image it also seems to reduce the
contrast and if I increase the contrast it seems to block up the shadow areas
one way to control this is with the shadows and highlights slider you can
use these sliders to protect either the shadows or highlights from adjustments
and this helps you manage any problems with clipping
another way to control the problem is using control points if I add a negative
control points in the dark area of the C I can remove the effect of the filter
from that area you may also find though that the effects removed from other
areas where you want it to appear and you can add the AK in using the plus
control point
now these tools are fine but there is a third way to control the effect and it's
often overlooked you can adjust the actual film simulation using the film
detail section of the filter if I expand this you'll see four sections
sensitivity saturation tone curve and film grain I'll start with the tone
curve where I can see that it's applying a lot of contrast to the image and
that's what's causing the problem with the shadows in this image by adjusting
the shadow points on the curve I can prevent the shadows from becoming
blocked up
now let's look at the sensitivity sliders these control how white are
darker color appears in the image you'll see this when I move the yellow slider
left and right when I move it to the left it darkens the yellows in the image
and if I move it to the right it lightens them by working through each of
the sliders and then moving them left to right you can find out how the image
responds
if you want to reset the slider you can select the film simulation again from
the drop-down do remember though that this will reset all the film adjustments
and lytx not just the sliders you may find a better approach is to use the
history panel
once you understand how the image responds to the sensitivity sliders you
can tweak them
after that you can move on to adjust the levels of saturation of individual
colors again moving the slider to the left reduces a saturation for a color
whilst moving it to the right increases it
finally I'm going to add a soft grain to the image
once I'm happy with my adjustments I'll say this as a new recipe then I can
apply that recipe to any of my images in the future now let's compare my modified
settings with the original film simulation
I'll start by resetting the filter by selecting the film simulation again
I'll then move the history point slider down to the end of the history list this
sets the latest filter as the before State for any comparisons I can then
apply my save film recipe to the image to replace the existing film adjustment
if you look in the history list you can see the new recipes applied if I change
to the split-screen view again you can see the effect the initial simulation
appears on the left and my modified version appears on the right and to
compare the new simulation with the original image just return the pointer
to the start of the history list I hope you found today's video useful and that
is given you some new ideas about working with the Nik collection and the
color effects film filter I'm Robin Whalley you've been watching lenscraft
I'll see you next time for another video