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I find the plugins useful for any type of photograpy, but I often find myself using the plugins for portraits where I want to achieve a quick result that looks great.
Here are two before and after examples where I have used both of the above mentioned plugins to achieve a certain creative effect. I would estimate that it took me less than two minutes to achieve these results, and most of that time is spent browsing through the many effects available with each plugin.
As you can see I have created a slightly toned version of the original colour image (using PhotoTools) and then stacked it with a photographic frame (using PhotoFrame). As I created these images a while ago I cannot remember the specific choices here as there are a wealth of options with these plugins.
In this example I have created an old photo look (using PhotoTools) and then applied a old looking paper as the frame/background (using PhotoFrame).
Notice that both images were shot at ISO 800 with my Canon G9 – now replaced by the Canon G10 and you might notice a reasonably high amount of noise in the images. However I wasn’t too worried about this as in black and white or ‘old style’ conversions this noise only adds a bit of ‘grain’ and mood to the images.
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Sun, Aug 16, 2009
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