Product Introduction
Introducing Works by a Professional Photographer
- The works shown are all RAW developments by “SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro5 for Panasonic.”
We are releasing sample photographs using one of SILKYPIX’s distinctive features known as “Taste,” as well as the “Tastes” themselves.
Take some time to enjoy applying some of the “Tastes” you have downloaded to your photographs.
Then, after you have applied the various “Tastes” we have released, please give others some hints as to how they can be used to further their own methods of expression.
”Tastes” are “assortments of variants of each parameter” used to create a finished photographic image.
By reading a taste, you can change the target image in one fell swoop. There are ten kinds of tastes set in SILKYPIX from the time you install the software.
When printing black and white film onto paper, you will find slightly differences tones and contrasts in expressions depending on the print paper. We have included tastes that can convert this into digital data as per your own tastes.
Cool, Gentle BlackA blue black with weak tone. |
Cool, Hard BlackA blue black with strong tone. |
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Warm, Gentle BlackA brown black with weak tone. |
Warm, Hard BlackA brown black with strong tone. |
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We have picked up five colors from amongst “Japanese Traditional Colors,” and included tastes that provide a finish in this double tone style.
Double tone is a printing method in which one color ink is added to black and white photographs.
MustardThis light yellow looks like powdered mustard seeds. |
TeakThis orange, tinged with red, is made from squeezing out the juice of young persimmons and fermenting it. |
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We have included “SILKYPIX Film” tastes that you can use to give a feeling that you have chosen a film that meets the expressions of a film camera.
We have included “Tastes” for creating photographs enveloped in a luscious, soft light overflowing with a sense of translucence. This taste can provide a feeling of the “Sweet Light” effect by setting the exposure to brightening. Exposure adjustments are not included in “Tastes,” so make your exposure adjustments after applying the taste.
Sweet Light BlueYou can obtain the effect of a soft blue light over the entire image. |
Sweett Light PinkYou can obtain the effect of a soft pink light over the entire image. |
This taste reminds one of that one scene from a film that moves you from the depths of your memory.
Cine Film RetroColors that invoke feelings of elegant simplicity, as well as the blues. |
Cine Film Road MovieThis features a thin yellow that moderates a high contrast color saturation. |
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Cine Film WesternThis features brown tones that remind you of westerns. |
Cine Film 70’sThis features tones that compress the highlighted area, with feelings of visuals from the 1970s. |
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When taking photographs with film, there is a method, known as the cross process, for expressing portrayals that have extremely strong color development and clear contrasts by developing the film using developing solutions made for negative film on positive film. By using a different developing solution, you will not obtain appropriate colors or contrast, but you may find you have a quite tasteful finish. We have included four types of “Tastes” so that you can make images like this cross process under “Digital Cross Process.”
DCP Blue-GreenInverts the blue-green directions. |
DCP GreenInverts the green direction. |
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DCP RedInverts the red direction. |
DCP YellowInverts the yellow direction. |
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One feature of the hard monochrome expression “Taste” is image making with a powerfully high contrast.
It can bring out both the mysterious and the dramatic even in those close-ups that you are used to seeing casually.
In addition, because there are cases in which expressions go to the extreme depending on the kind of subject and its condition, we have prepared high contrast expressions known as “Hard Monochrome” “Hard Monochrome Gray Tone” and “Hard Monochrome White Tone”.