

Load your original image and use the pull down menu in the edit section to launch SEP. I used Photoshop in this case since I had a little “pre-editing” to do anyway (pesky tourists).

Silver Efex Pro (SEP) works as a plug-in to a variety of imaging programs such as Photoshop or Lightroom. So with the backstory in place, Let’s go into Silver EFEX Pro and see what we’ve got… The Silver Efex Pro 2 Interface Multnomah Falls Outside of Portland, Oregon It actually now looks like I was there on a random spring day all by myself. Full disclosure here, I took the one I liked best and used Photoshop to “remove” a few stray people from the upper bridge, thus giving me a much cleaner starting point. Once I got home and downloaded the few frames I took, I realized that there were a couple that actually weren’t too bad. Not one of my stronger photo outings, and I was pretty sure the day was a bust. Not that there was much room to set it up anyway but at this point I decided to take my chances, knock out a few frames hand held and call it a day. I decided I wanted to go for more of a blur effect with the water so dialed back to 1/5 of a second exposure and realized that I'd forgotten my tripod. I fought my way to the front of the lower viewing area and started to grab a few frames.

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