![]() I took this shot with strong sidelighting to bring out the textures as far as possible, but the straight black and white conversion (above) still doesn’t have the bite I’m looking for, so let’s see what I can do about it in Silver Efex Pro 2. But for highly-detailed subjects like this cracked old trunk, it’s perfect. Strong structure settings can produce halos and edge artefacts in some conditions, mostly with subjects that have large areas of even tone. It exaggerates the ‘micro-contrast’ around outlines and details – though I suspect there’s a little more to it than that because I’ve never been able to replicate it directly with regular sharpening tools. You can think of the Silver Efex Pro Structure control it as a kind of ‘coarse sharpening’, which acts over a slightly larger radius than conventional sharpening tools. It helps to give black and white images that indefinable ‘bite’ that we’re always trying to recapture with our digital images. The Structure tool is one of Silver Efex Pro‘s secret weapons.
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