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Infusing black and white with color

Infusing black and white with color - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

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Infusing black and white with color

- In the last chapter, I showed you how to mix a full color photograph to make it black and white. Which Photoshop calls gray scale. But here's the problem, if you submit a gray scale image to a commercial print house, or print it to a reasonably capable laser printer, that photo will more likely than not print to a single ink, black. The problem with working with just one ink is that it offers, at most a hundred levels of luminance, and even that is wildly optimistic. Worse, none of these hundred levels is absolutely black. At best, your everyday average black ink is, by itself, darkish gray, so how do you make one of those super intense black and white photographs that you see in high end glossy magazines? You use all the inks available to you, and, this is very important, you always print to white paper. That way, black is super saturated with a ton of ink, and white is the brightest paper on Earth with no ink whatsoever. When you print two inks in concert to make a black and white…

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