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

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Shoot in color, convert to black & white

Shoot in color, convert to black & white - Photoshop Tutorial

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

Start my 1-month free trial

Shoot in color, convert to black & white

- Back in the old days, if you wanted to capture a black and white photograph, you shot to black and white film stock. But digital has changed all that. Nowadays you capture in color and convert to black and white in post. Why? Well this gets a little technical but here goes. The vast majority of digital cameras, whether point-and-shoot or DSLR, are outfitted with image sensors that capture luminance only information. In other words, they record grayscale images. To calculate color, each of the tiny pixels on the sensor chip are coated with red, green or blue resin. The information from those red, green and blue pixels are then merged together to form the composite color photograph. Now given that the image begins as grayscale, you might naturally figure shooting the black and white would make total sense. But because the sensor is hard-filtered, that is the resin can't be removed, the image doesn't make sense until it's converted to color, which happens automatically. So if you shoot…

Contents