Free PhotoShop plugin for PhotoCamel members

[Rense]

keith,
share your experiments here. Would love the see the twicely tweaked images.

[tomtom]

Any chance this could also be released for the Mac? The examples look awesome by the way .

[Rense]

Tom,
Not at the moment: I have no mac and use a special windows hosted plugin to make the plugins. You could go the highway: running windows on your mac, do the conversion there and then switch back to full mac.

[tomtom]

Yes I did think of that, but I really dont want to use Windows as it costs money and I dont normally need to .

[Rense]

sorry, but than I have to answer no to your question.

[keithallenlaw]

OK, heres a stab at it. Still not sure if I need to start with a monochrome
version or not. I did notice the program works off of RGB values. If
I'm not mistaken I believe a monochrome from the DPI RAW converter
leaves the RGB data intact. Now, there is the question of photoshop
and the *disregard color data* in the gray scale selection. That might
not be a wise idea if you are using the Minmaxer. I have no prove
of this but the differences are so subtle.

Here is one that I started out with monochrome and put it through the
Minmaxer at my own choice settings. Is there any good tutorials on
this subject. The tutorial provided is very basic. Which picture style
is the best starting point? A lot of questions I do have. Workflows?
Thanks!

[Rense]

keith,
The best way is to start with a coloredd 8 bit version. Because in this way there is really different information in the RGB channels.
Decide if you want to have a light contrast or deep contrast picture. If the answer is light: choose the channel with the most light contrast, lets say this is the R-channel. Next decide by clicking on the options min R ... or max R... gives the best result. Finally do overall contrast tweaking with the sliders, press oke and do some dodging/burning.

Picture style is not important for the plugin, but for the scene information you want to capture.

Hope this helps.

[ascending Phoenix]

Another Model would like to thank you for the ease of the plug in..and how she loves it even in the default settings..

To that she says Cowgirl Up to you..

[Rense]

Mike,
give this young lady my sincere greetings. She is indeed a nice testing case for my plugins!

[Loa]

Hello,

I'm discovering a love for the B&W rather late... Discovered this plugin and now I'm dying for a chance to use it.

But, there's a but, I'm on a mac. Any chance of ever seeing that plugin work for Macs, or is there anything else similar for those of us across the fence? ;-)

Thanks,

Loa

[Rense]

Loa,
Unfortunately not:
I don't have a mac. I use a windows plugin called filtermeister to write these plugins.

[Loa]

Hello,

Ok, thanks Rense. I'll follow your answers on my other thread in B&W forum.

Loa

[Rense]

the tutorial is up there

[Uncle Frank]

Hi, Rense! I followed the link, downloaded the files, de-compressed them, and it gave me 4 files... colorwheel, exo1, minmaxer with an Adobe symbol on it, and minmaxer with a plug on it. I'm a CS2 user. Which of these do I use, and how do I go about it?

Thanks in advance.

[Uncle Frank]

Thanks for the assistance in installing the plugi-in, Rense. It's a very useful conversion tool... similar to the channel mixer. I converted a wedding shot, adding selective color through layer masking.

[davew]

Crashes my cs3 on windows Vista 32 bit..

specs
Widows vista 32 bit ultimate
Photoshop CS3
2 gig 667 ram
nvidia 7300
pent core 2 duo E6750 @ 2.66GHZ

[Rense]

davew,

I don't have this combination (vista+cs3). Is there any response (an error message). It could be two problems:
(1) you need more than 2GB memory
(2) Disabling Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is turned on.

for solving problem 1: I will pm you and updated version, could you please test it for me?

for problem 2, there isn't a solution yet (you could try a restart with DEP turned off, like in this article).

[davew]

The new version worked like a charm; thank you

[Paul Shields]

Originally Posted by ascending Phoenix

Another Model would like to thank you for the ease of the plug in..and how she loves it even in the default settings..

To that she says Cowgirl Up to you..

That looks mighty fine Mike. I particularly like how you've captured the light on the hat (is that a 10 gallon - excuse the Euro ignorance ).

[olgatudor]

crash on CS3, Vista...

This is the error msg:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Photoshop.exe
Application Version: 10.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4601eae8
Fault Module Name: StackHash_1973
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bdc9
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 000af1c9
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 1973
Additional Information 2: 4ea08f3d839786267c769935f1dfc9c3
Additional Information 3: 5dee
Additional Information 4: 23c081293a4faf92f22a1684bea230d6