Black and White Photoshop Conversion Techniques Andrew Gibson on Jan 27th 2011 Final Product What You'll Be Creating A quick glance through any photography or fashion magazine, or at the photos on social websites like Flickr, confirms that black and white photography is as popular as ever. With the coming of digital though, one important thing has changed. In the days of film photography, you shot on black and white film. Now, with digital cameras, you take photos in colour and then convert them to black and white. In this article we run through the most commonly used black and white conversion methods, outlining the pros and cons of each. Instructions are provided for Photoshop CS and if the technique’s available, Photoshop Elements. Converting to black and white digitally has a number of advantages. With film, the black and white conversion essentially happened at the time of shooting. If you wanted to change the nature of the black and white conversion, you could only do it by placing a coloured filter on the lens (a red filter, for instance, makes blue skies much darker). Now, by starting with a colour photo and converting it to black and white in Photoshop, you have complete control over the conversion. Darkening a blue sky is easy, once you know how, and you can decide exactly how dark you want it to be.
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Black and White Photoshop Conversion Techniques
Andrew Gibson on Jan 27th 2011
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
A quick glance through any photography or fashion magazine, or at the photos on social websites like Flickr,
confirms that black and white photography is as popular as ever. With the coming of digital though, one
important thing has changed. In the days of film photography, you shot on black and white film. Now, with
digital cameras, you take photos in colour and then convert them to black and white.
In this article we run through the most commonly used black and white conversion methods, outlining the pros
and cons of each. Instructions are provided for Photoshop CS and if the technique’s available, Photoshop
Elements.
Converting to black and white digitally has a number of advantages. With film, the black and white
conversion essentially happened at the time of shooting. If you wanted to change the nature of the black and
white conversion, you could only do it by placing a coloured filter on the lens (a red filter, for instance, makes
blue skies much darker).
Now, by starting with a colour photo and converting it to black and white in Photoshop, you have complete
control over the conversion. Darkening a blue sky is easy, once you know how, and you can decide exactly