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Doing a selective black-and-white conversion - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
Doing a selective black-and-white conversion
There will be times when you won't want to convert all of an image to black and white. Selective black-and-white conversion allows you to leave something in the image that's in color. So, you'll see this. A lot of times people will convert an image into black and white and leave one object edited in color. It can be a very cool effect. I would argue that you need to be careful with it, that it doesn't upstage your image. A lot of times such an effect can be distracting because what people notice is oh, hey, one thing is in color. Here is an example. I'm going to leave her color and knock the background out to black and white. So here is my original. I've added a Black and White adjustment layer. I can now do any toning in black and white that I like, but this works this fine as is. Black and White is an adjustment layer, just like the Levels adjustment layers that we've been using, which means it always comes in with a layer mask, which means I can simply build a mask to say what…
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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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