Creating better black-and-white landscape photographs

- Creating better black and white photographs…is about more than simply removing color.…So here let's take a look at how we can create…a better black and white landscape photograph…by using two different adjustment layers.…We'll start off with black and white…and then we'll finish this off by using Curves…and do some masking there, as well.…All right, well what people typically do…if they're new to Photoshop…is they use a tool maybe like Hue Saturation…and they just desaturate the image…by lowering that slider and removing color.…But this isn't very dynamic or interesting,…there has to be a better way.…

Well, there is.…And I'm just gonna leave this layer here…but turn it's visibility off…so that we can compare and contrast the results…with a technique that we will be using here.…What we're going to do is work on the background layer…by way of the black and white adjustment layer.…Here we'll create the black and white adjustment layer.…And in this panel we have control over…all of the different colors that were…