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Mixing a subjective black-and-white image

Mixing a subjective black-and-white image - Photoshop Tutorial

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Mixing a subjective black-and-white image

In this exercise, I am going to show you how to mix perfect black-and-white photograph inside of Camera RAW, and you do that from the HSL/Grayscale panel, and then I will show you how to infuse that image with color using the options in the Split Toning panel. I have opened California coast.dng, and I have already cropped the image and applied some basic adjustments to it, so that it looks at its absolute best, let's imagine and these settings are saved along with the file. Now before you embark on a grayscale image, I advise you to work just the way I have. Go ahead and apply your cropping first, then apply your basic adjustments, and save those adjustments out as a snapshot. So I am going to go over here to the Snapshots panel. Now you may have wondered along the way what in the world is going on with the Presets panel, because it allows you to save adjustments too. Well, when you are saving a preset, you are saving the adjustments as a preference setting that you can then apply…

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