A good Black & White

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Napolux
Nov 9, 2004
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Hi,
I usually use my 3.2 Megapixels camera for making photos, and sometimes I think a picture can be more significant in Black & White. I’m not a great photographer but I know very well photoshop.

I usually make a B & W photo in these ways:

1. Desaturation (I don’t like it very much)
2. Using only one of the 3 RGB channels
3. Gray scale conversion.

Are there any other ways that give good results?
Have you a web link?

I’ve found a tutorial about Channel Mixer: is only avalaible in Photoshop CS?

I have Photoshop 7.0.1

Thanks a lot 🙂


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Geoff Realname
Nov 9, 2004
Hi Napolux!

Found this in Adobe Elements forum (I think):

Open image.
New layer.
Fill with white.
Set Blend Mode to Color.

Seems to me to keep good tonal range, and you can still fool about with the original to fine-tune it before flattening.

Geoff

Napolux wrote:
Hi,
I usually use my 3.2 Megapixels camera for making photos, and sometimes I think a picture can be more significant in Black & White. I’m not a great photographer but I know very well photoshop.

I usually make a B & W photo in these ways:

1. Desaturation (I don’t like it very much)
2. Using only one of the 3 RGB channels
3. Gray scale conversion.

Are there any other ways that give good results?
Have you a web link?

I’ve found a tutorial about Channel Mixer: is only avalaible in Photoshop CS?

I have Photoshop 7.0.1

Thanks a lot 🙂

R
RSD99
Nov 9, 2004
See Russell Brown’s tutorial "Seeing in Black & White" … http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
DD
David Dyer-Bennet
Nov 9, 2004
"Napolux" writes:

Hi,
I usually use my 3.2 Megapixels camera for making photos, and sometimes I think a picture can be more significant in Black & White. I’m not a great photographer but I know very well photoshop.

I usually make a B & W photo in these ways:

1. Desaturation (I don’t like it very much)
2. Using only one of the 3 RGB channels
3. Gray scale conversion.

Are there any other ways that give good results?
Have you a web link?

I’ve found a tutorial about Channel Mixer: is only avalaible in Photoshop CS?

No, channel mixer goes back to at least Photoshop 5; don’t remember for sure if it was in 4.

It’s the most general way of making B&W from color — all of your first 3 are just specific settings for the Channel Mixer. —
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seaside
Nov 9, 2004
have a go with Mediachances’ Bworks at
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/bworks.htm

or Cybias’ BWPlus at
http://www.cybia.co.uk/bwplus.htm

Napolux wrote:
Hi,
I usually use my 3.2 Megapixels camera for making photos, and sometimes I think a picture can be more significant in Black & White. I’m not a great photographer but I know very well photoshop.

I usually make a B & W photo in these ways:

1. Desaturation (I don’t like it very much)
2. Using only one of the 3 RGB channels
3. Gray scale conversion.

Are there any other ways that give good results?
Have you a web link?

I’ve found a tutorial about Channel Mixer: is only avalaible in Photoshop CS?

I have Photoshop 7.0.1

Thanks a lot 🙂

C
Corey
Nov 9, 2004
The Channel Mixer is in Photoshop 7 under Images > Adjust > Channel Mixer. The tutorial should still be useful.

Black and white often "captures the moment!"

Peadge 🙂

"Napolux" wrote in message
Hi,
I usually use my 3.2 Megapixels camera for making photos, and sometimes I think a picture can be more significant in Black & White. I’m not a great photographer but I know very well photoshop.

I usually make a B & W photo in these ways:

1. Desaturation (I don’t like it very much)
2. Using only one of the 3 RGB channels
3. Gray scale conversion.

Are there any other ways that give good results?
Have you a web link?

I’ve found a tutorial about Channel Mixer: is only avalaible in Photoshop CS?

I have Photoshop 7.0.1

Thanks a lot 🙂


Napolux

http://napolux.altervista.org

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Clyde
Nov 10, 2004
Peadge wrote:
<snip>

Black and white often "captures the moment!"

Peadge 🙂

What?!?

I thought all still photography always captured the moment – for better or worse. Good B&W photography emphasizes shape and form without the distraction of color. That may or may not enhance the "moment" you were trying to illustrate.

Clyde
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lara hartley
Nov 10, 2004
In article <cmq3r6$uq0$>,
"Napolux" wrote:

Hi,
I usually use my 3.2 Megapixels camera for making photos, and sometimes I think a picture can be more significant in Black & White. I’m not a great photographer but I know very well photoshop.

I usually make a B & W photo in these ways:

1. Desaturation (I don’t like it very much)
2. Using only one of the 3 RGB channels
3. Gray scale conversion.

Are there any other ways that give good results?

change mode to lab

select the luminance channel – command 1 on a Mac

Adjust contrast, brightness etc. to your liking then convert to greyscale

I like that method and also channel mixer. But if you fool with channel mixer too much you can increase the noise in smooth areas like the sky.

lara


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