This video uses layers and may be a bit confusing to beginners, but if you follow the direction you can create some stunning monochrome photos, and begin to understand that photoshop offers several ways to achieve similar results.
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This video uses layers and may be a bit confusing to beginners, but if you follow the direction you can create some stunning monochrome photos, and begin to understand that photoshop offers several ways to achieve similar results.
Last edited by ricktas; 24-04-2012 at 2:45pm.
"It is one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it is another thing to make a portrait of who they are" - Paul Caponigro
Constructive Critique of my photographs is always appreciated
Nikon, etc!
RICK
My Photography
Hello:
I don't have PS now so I tried it with GIMP rather than PS and it works! I changed colour photos to black and white.
The 1st “Saturation” is the easiest one.
The 3rd method “Channel Mixer” is really great although it will take me more time to me to practice and obtain what I want. Some effects were to simulate that a filter (red, green) were used.
Last edited by Jorge Arguello; 15-07-2010 at 1:22pm.
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J. Arguello.
Constructive Criticism (CC) is alsways welcome.
Photography gear: Nikon D7000; Tokina 11-20mm f/2.8; Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5 - 5.6; Tamron A17 70-300mm f/4 - 5.6; Nikkor 50mm f/1.8; Yongnuo 35mm f/2; Neewer 85mm f/1.8; Nikon AW100 ;Canon EOS 300; Tamron 28-105mm; Canon 75-300mm.
Photo Editing: Nikon Capture NX-D , GIMP ;
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All the methods described are good, just the results differ.
If any beginner is having trouble converting colour to B&W can I suggest a wonderful book.
"Digital black and white photography" by John Beardsworth.
Apart from the different ways to covert to B&W he also goes onto many other areas.
Retouching portraits
Darkening skies
changing backgrounds
Hand-colouring black & white images to name a few.
Well worth a read.
David
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Lumix G6 with 14-140mm lens.
RAW post work done with Aperture 4 with image size done in CS5
Wow, that's an awesome video. I just took a few images over the weekend which I wanted to convert to B&W as well, so the timing couldn't be more perfect. Thanks!
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mmm why can't I see these video links?
I see the links in some of the other tutes but lately I'm missing links to posted videoFirefox 4.0.1, XP SP3.
Last edited by dbax; 11-05-2011 at 10:33pm.
Cheers David.
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Sigma 10-20mm 4-5.6 /Sigma 70-200/ Sigma 1.4 teleconverter/ some Conkin filters | Adobe Photoshop CS6
Thanks i have just bought PS and will use some of the tips learnt here thanks again
This was a great tutorial, not sure if I will succeed but will have a go. I would also like to change some pics to black and white and have one item with just colour. I heard you can do this by using the eraser tool? Is this correct?
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