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Converting to black and white in Camera Raw

Converting to black and white in Camera Raw - Photoshop Tutorial

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Converting to black and white in Camera Raw

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Earlier, I spent some time haranguing you about shooting in RAW instead of JPEG because RAW has a number of advantages over JPEG, as we discussed: highlight recovery, white balance adjustment--which we don't really need as black-and-white shooters--the ability to preserve 16 bits' worth of data instead of merely 8 bits, like you get in JPEG. It's also possible to do your black-and- white conversion in RAW, and we're going to look at that right now. I've got this RAW file opened. This is an exercise file that you can download. And you can see I've got some blues, some reds, some greens, a bunch of gray. This is the basic controls for adjusting tone and whatnot. But if I go over to here, HSL/ Grayscale, this gives me Hue, Saturation and Luminous controls and I've got this check box here that says Convert to Grayscale. If I do that, again I get a default black-and-white conversion recipe. And basically, this works just the same way that the Black and White dialog in Photoshop does. I've…

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