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The nature of grayscale images - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
The nature of grayscale images
Now we're ready to get to what is, in my opinion, the good stuff, which is converting a color image to black and white. Shooting is fun, and you get to go places, and you get to go outside and all that, and that's great. But as far as making a black-and-white photo, this is where it happens, in the process of converting color to black and white. With what we're going to learn here, you're going to be able to take a blah color image and possibly turn it into a really interesting black and white, or you're going to be able to finally see the possibility that you saw when you were shooting realized into an actual black-and-white picture. We can do so much manipulation in black and white, in terms of tonality, that there is just a tremendous amount of creativity that can happen in this process. Before we get to converting to black and white though, which we're going to start in the next movie, I want to talk about color. I know that sounds a little weird, but let's just look really…
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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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