Amateur Photographer

Stylish black & white

Gone are the days of sloshing chemicals around in a darkroom lit by the dim red glow of a safelight. Black & white photography in the digital age is quick and easy in comparison to the days of film, with almost endless possibilities available with a single raw file. And while Lightroom, Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop offer excellent controls for converting images to monochrome, the Silver Efex Pro 2 Photoshop plug-in has been a firm favourite with amateur and professional photographers for decades.

Silver Efex Pro 2 is one of eight plug-ins that make up Nik Collection 3 by DxO, which is arguably the best Photoshop plug-in suite available. Without going into a huge amount of detail, the plug-in suite

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