Owh sorry, you misunderstood me a bit, i know how to create presets and partial presets.
I like to see your filmpack use in monochrome filters of film emulation so i can learn to use those instead of silverefex.
I did a test run a wile ago with all kinds of film types and compare them with nik se.
Somehow i got overwhelmd by the amount of film types and different finetune possibily’s.
And returned to silver efex’s presets.
So to be blunt,clear, would you show us some base to results steps using your FP?
Show us how you setup modify those filters to a result.
That could be difficult because I don’t have a “standard” routine; it all depends on the state of the original image.
The first stage is to get the best possible colour image: tonal range, contrast, colour balance, etc. Then I apply a FilmPack rendition, adjusting the intensity to suit. If I were to work on a landscape that needs the blue in the sky darkening to increase contrast in the B&W version, I would apply a red or orange or yellow filter; just as I would if I were dealing with B&W film at the taking stage.
Here are three versions of an image, straight file, adjusted and finally converted - there are actually very few adjustments, except those necessary to normalise the colour image.
If you have only taken a brief look at Silver EfExPro it might be worthwhile having another look. It has long been regarded as the best (one of) B&W converters. In particular take a look at the Soft Contrast, Dynamic Brightness, and Amplify Black/White controls. If you or anyone else are interested it would be worth taking a look at these tutorials which provide a better understanding of Silver EfExPro:
Coming from a film background, including large format, i am well used to correctly exposing, processing and printing B&W.
I tend to use levels, curves and local adjustments of contrast, etc to emulate darkroom printing techniques so, apart from the convenience of being able to choose from FilmPack’s film emulations, the kind of presets and filters that SilverEfex offers is of very little attraction to me personally.
Just in case it’s of interest to anyone - the original NIK functions can be run as stand-alone applications bt simply going to the filesystem and creating a desktop shortcut to the relevant .EXE file (Windows - don’t know how Macs work).
