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Old 05-22-2006, 03:23 PM
Nesster Nesster is offline
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This is a fun plugin for photoshop - works with my Elements 1.0, so it's broadly compatible.

The idea is: process digital images to give a variety of film / print / slide looks. The software is really easy to use, Optik Verve gives you a bunch of presets to work from... they don't identify the 4 types of film, but you can see the differences. This software is fun to play with and gives some nifty creative effects... and best of all the price is right: Free!

http://www.optikvervelabs.com/
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Old 06-09-2006, 01:09 AM
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The price is most certainly right. I'll have to give it a try...thanks for the info!
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Old 06-27-2006, 12:21 PM
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Here are a couple of samples - I bought a lensbaby for my Pentax, wasn't going to wait till I figured which dSLR I was getting - and shot some tests.

Then I ran them through virtual photographer, applying the various grain and filter / wash / tone options... for the ferns, two different layers blended.





Based on flickr requirements I have to give a link to the pages:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/169133849/


I find virtual photographer excellent in learning / creating B&W... it does color well too!

(this isn't software, but has anyone tried the pinhole on a 35mm? I see a place that makes nice seeming pinholes, for not much more than it would be to get a body cap & DIY: Lenox )
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Old 06-27-2006, 06:08 PM
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Nice!

To digress a litte, just a quick note on Flickr's link-back-to-'em requirement.

Instead of providing a separate link in the body of your post, you can actually nest the image tags inside a link tag so that the image is the link. This is pretty simple to do.

Imagine that the curly braces below are square - if I put square brackets in here, they'll get mangled into an actual image and link.

Instead of:
Code:
{img}http://some.flickr.image/wherever/whatever.jpg{/img} Here's the obligatory link to Flickr: {url=http://some.flickr.page/wherever/the/image/is}link text{/url}
You can shove the image right in the middle of the url tab, in the same place where "link text" is in the above example. This would look like:
Code:
{url=http://some.flickr.page/wherever/the/image/is}{img}http://some.flickr.image/wherever/whatever.jpg{/img}{/url}
That way you fulfil your obligation to flickr and reduce the clutter.

Oh, and this is pretty much suggested by flickr themselves - it's not like this is just a following-the-letter-of-the-law-but-ignoring-the-spirit sort of thing. You know the bit that provides pre-made HTML for shoving the image into a web page? That's formatted in exactly the same way. This is just an adaptation of that HTML to vB code.
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