Converting Color Photos To Black And White
I love black and white photos. They succeed at pulling out details that you could have missed otherwise.
This morning I read a wonderful tutorial on the Digital Photography School Blog. This tutorial taught five different ways for you to create Black and White photos. The first one is using the in camera filter, which I tend to steer away from. The last four examples are post processing methods and all four offer good tips. Personally, I prefer the “Lab Color Method”, which is example number four.
If you’d like to learn the five techniques, you can read them here.
September 5th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
[...] Well, I don’t know if the artist used the tutorial for changing color photos to black and white, but this image looks great. There is so much emotion in a emotionless photo. [...]
September 26th, 2006 at 10:32 am
I used a plugin called Exposure (for Photoshop, but does work with Elements, which is what I have) that does the B&W conversion but adds ‘grain’ depending on which type of film you are trying to simulate, which in this case was Ilford Delta 100.