Black And White Post Processing

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Nigel Cliff
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I like converting some of my shots to B&W and have had some success especially with steam trains but when I don landscapes and try to get the hard gritty feel a la Ansel Adams I fail miserably,any tips would be much appreciated.I use Photoshop CS2 and Elements 7
 
I often find B+W needs a little more contrast to bring out the "punch" Which way are you converting to B+W the channel mixer or another method?
 
I use the Nik plugin, SilverEfex I think it's called. works really well.
 
Foxes said:
Take a look at my latest upload!
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Are you having a larf? Four posts, and each one has been a link to your flickr. Just stick the flickr link in your signature and post something worthwhile will you!
 
Please excuse my ignorance, what is SilverEfex? I also use CS2 and didn't understand a word about curves layer or the like. Can anyone point me at a good tutorial?

Thanks in advance,

Cheesy
 
You could try using duotone or monotone. You will find it under the Mode menu. Ifits greyed out convert to 8 bit first then greyscale. That should enable the duotone option and experiment with the curves from within that.
 
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