From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
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More about the Black & White dialog box - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
More about the Black & White dialog box
I have more to say about the Black and White dialog box. In fact, I've got a lot more to say, and we'll be talking about it throughout the rest of this course. But before we go back to it, I want to look at another tool in Photoshop, not one that I think you should use, but one that is used in a lot of other image-editing programs and one that if you've been using Photoshop for a long time, you might be used to using, and I want to talk about it because I think if you're an old Photoshop hand who has used this tool before, it's important to explain how it's different from the Black and White dialog. I've got the same exercise file open that we used in the last lesson. I am going to go to Image > Adjustments > Channel Mixer, and it brings up this thing, which looks kind of like the Black and White dialog box, except I've only got three color channels. To get a grayscale conversion, I have to check this Monochrome box, and that gives me again a default grayscale recipe. Now I've got…
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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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