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Converting an image to grayscale

Converting an image to grayscale - Photoshop Tutorial

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Converting an image to grayscale

In this exercise, we're going to take our first look at the big world of black-and-white photography inside of Photoshop, which alternately goes by the name Grayscale; the idea being that not only do you have the absolute luminance level of black and the absolute luminance level of white, but you have all these transitional gray values in-between and not only that, you can infuse those luminance levels with color if you want to. You could create a sepia tone inside Photoshop. You could infuse the shadows with one color, and the highlights with another color, and the midtones with still a third color. So you have all kinds of options that are available to you. I will go so far as to say you are better off where digital cameras are concerned. Shooting in color and when I say you're better off, you're far better off, and then converting the image to black-and-white inside of Photoshop, because Photoshop gives you far more options. You are going to have a world of options once again that…

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