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Converting to black and white in Camera Raw - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
Converting to black and white in Camera Raw
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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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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