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Making an advanced tonal correction - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White
Making an advanced tonal correction
So you have seen the basics of getting color into black and white using the Black and White dialog or ideally, the Black and White adjustment layer. And there's a lot of good work you can do with that tool. But as you may have noticed, so far we haven't gone from color into that really powerful black-and-white image, and very often you can't do that simply with the Black and White dialog box. The Black and White dialog box is there to get your image converted to black and white. Now, it's up to you to use normal toning controls to start to really work the image and make it happen. As I mentioned before, I use a fairly small refined set of editing tools. I think the bigger lesson for black and white is learning more the aesthetics of black and white in the vocabulary of black and white and what it is you need to look for, how you need to apply those tools to make a black-and-white image that really works. So, we are going to do that right now. We are going to go from start to finish…
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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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