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Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS5 - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS5
At long last we are ready to convert a color image to black and white. We've gone through the theory. We've gone through the shooting. I've got a color image open up here, and I'm ready to do my conversion. Now, there are many ways to convert a color image to black and white. There are lots of different pieces of software you can use. Most image editors have a way of converting color to black and white, and within any image editor there might be multiple methods of doing the conversion. I'm here in Photoshop CS5. In Photoshop, I can list for you 16 different ways to convert a color image to black and white, and if you look in magazine articles and books and web pages, you'll find lots of people listing lots of different methods, and it used to be that knowing the three or four different conversion methods was not a bad idea, because you got very different results from each. But starting with Photoshop CS3, Adobe introduced a new black-and-white conversion feature that is almost the…
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The nature of grayscale images3m 33s
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Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS56m 17s
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More about the Black & White dialog box3m 19s
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Converting to black and white using Black & White adjustment layers3m 54s
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Converting to black and white in Camera Raw4m 5s
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Making an advanced tonal correction17m 33s
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Doing more tonal corrections14m 6s
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Calming down highlights10m 4s
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Vignetting8m 58s
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The trestle images2m 39s
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Handling tricky skies2m 43s
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Doing a selective black-and-white conversion2m 23s
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Toning1m 19s
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Split-toning2m 19s
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High-key and low-key images2m 31s
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Diffusion4m 40s
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Using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in7m 46s
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