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The nature of grayscale images

The nature of grayscale images - Photoshop Tutorial

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The nature of grayscale images

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Now we're ready to get to what is, in my opinion, the good stuff, which is converting a color image to black and white. Shooting is fun, and you get to go places, and you get to go outside and all that, and that's great. But as far as making a black-and-white photo, this is where it happens, in the process of converting color to black and white. With what we're going to learn here, you're going to be able to take a blah color image and possibly turn it into a really interesting black and white, or you're going to be able to finally see the possibility that you saw when you were shooting realized into an actual black-and-white picture. We can do so much manipulation in black and white, in terms of tonality, that there is just a tremendous amount of creativity that can happen in this process. Before we get to converting to black and white though, which we're going to start in the next movie, I want to talk about color. I know that sounds a little weird, but let's just look really…

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