Converting to black and white

In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to convert an image to black and white.…I've gone ahead and opened up a file called Me in baseball cap.dng;…it's found inside the exercise files folder.…And I open it in Camera Raw by selecting the image in the bridge and pressing…Ctrl+R on the PC, or Command+R on the Mac.…Now you can convert images to black and white, both inside Photoshop and inside Camera Raw.…In Photoshop you use an adjustment layer called black & white.…However, Camera Raw gives you more control.…

So even if you're working with the JPEG or TIFF image, this is the way to go.…To convert an image to black and white, go up to this list of icons above the…word Basic on the right-hand side of the screen and click on the one that…says HSL/Grayscale.…Then drop down to this check box Convert to Grayscale and turn it on, and that…will leave you with one subpanel called Grayscale Mix, along with several…different slider bars, which allow you to control the amount of any one color…ingredient that goes into the final black and white mixture.…