Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Alien Skin Software Rules!

A friend recently turned me onto this great plug in software for Photoshop called Alien Skin. The software has great simulated film stocks that make for a great starting point when working on your digital pix. That is if you like the look of film and want to get close to the look of tri-x 400 or say 160NC Portra. There are quite a few film stocks ranging from Fuji, Kodak, Ilford and Agfa, in both color and B&W. There is also filters for infrared and slide film simulations that are quite impressive. I know film purists will probably disagree with me, but if your that into film your probably not going to shoot digital anyway. But if you are this is a great way to get something as close as possible to making your digital files look like you scanned a print, neg, or slide. Trust me nothing comes close to a B&W fiber print in my opinion, but if your a working photographer and workflow and speed is important. Then this might just be a great solution for you!

Standard processing from RAW to jpeg, no color film simulation.
Kodak 160VC simulation.
Fuji Astia slide film simulation.
Kodak tri-x 400 simulation.
Infrared film simulation. Never was big on the infrared look, but its nice that you can play around and have this option with this software. For more info here is link to the Alien Skin website.

3 comments:

妍慧 said...

thank for share, it is very important . ̄︿ ̄

Martin said...

Dude, what until you see that pic spread out in print in GR65. Super nice!

Ben Clark Photography said...

Dude, can't wait to see that!