Comments on: The Zone System

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:44:06 +0000

Jonne: I’ll do that although I can honestly say that my skills with Lightroom’s monochrome tools are not all that great nor am I that picky about this stuff (yet). I will test it though, thanks for the reference.

By: Jonne Naarala

Jonne Naarala — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:37:29 +0000

I feel that it has much better B&W film presets to start with than LR. The U-Point Technology it uses is really fantastic for selective control. Film grain emulation is also brilliant. I think it is superior as compared to LR when you want to do some B&Ws. Just test it, they have 15-day free trial.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:54:55 +0000

Jonne: I just looked up Silver Efex Pro. Interesting. You use it with Lightroom and feel what it does to monochrome images is better than what LR does natively? How so?

By: Jonne Naarala

Jonne Naarala — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:53:34 +0000

I use Silver Efex Pro from Nik software to make digital monochrome pics and that plug-in has zone system embedded nicely in. You can visually see if your photo has those zones and in what parts of the pic.