B+W technique

Robbo

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tried a google already but not much look.

Any one have any links to a really good B+W processing method?
 
I personnaly prefere silver effects pro (for photoshop) but theres tons of free actions etc which do a decent job, to be fair CS5 does a good job on it's own.
Don't use desaturate, it's about the worst method.
What software are you using?
 
I am using CS4 at the moment......

hmm will give silver Efex a look into..
 
Make use of the colour filters in the software to alter the contrast of the images.
 
just downloaded the trial version....seems pretty good and simple...off to play :-)
 
Adam,

Have a look at these:

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/color-black-white.htm


http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/phs8bwconversion.pdf


http://www.digital-photography-school.com/digital-black-and-white


http://powerretouche.com/Black-white_plugin_tutorial.htm


http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/photoshop/articles/phscs2mrblkwht.html


http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/digital_black_white.html

Usually I prefer to use RAW images saved to TIFF 24-bit and split to RGB channels. I can dump the channels into layers and set different opacity levels and paint in and out what gives the best result before combining (flatening) the image.

In this process JPEG images may look blotched here and there due to compression and in-camera colour interpolation.

Sam
 
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