Photoshop Workflow

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Jimmy Smith wrote:
> For turning color digital photos into stunning B&W, does anyone here have a
> Photoshop workflow they could share?

You can look at the separate color channels, sometimes those might have
a better look than the full RGB.

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>For turning color digital photos into stunning B&W, does anyone here have a
>Photoshop workflow they could share?

http://www.dynamicartwork.com/articles/digital_bw.php

just about every way you can do it in photoshop

Hope that helps!

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Jimmy Smith wrote:
> For turning color digital photos into stunning B&W, does anyone here have a
> Photoshop workflow they could share?
>
> Jimmy
>
>
Hi Jimmy,

Russell Brown has a couple of tutorials on his site.

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Under the PS CS section, look for 'Photo Toner Technique', and under the
PS 7 section, look for 'Seeing in Black & White'.

You need the Quicktime plugin for the videos. If you don't have it, of
course the Apple site will give it to you, but that is now bloated with
iTunes. If you want iTunes it's cool, but also there is an alternative
Quicktime player that's much smaller available at

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm

Hope this is useful.

Mike

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JPS@no.komm wrote in news:hvn8u09eh14gvv6cevbmflkd8mrofeiig1@4ax.com:

> I think that something like Photoshop's channel mixer, except with gamma
> controls for each contributing channel, and seperate high-frequency and
> low-frequency channels for each contributing color would work nicely, if
> the individual channels were interpolated independently.
>
> You could have an overall contour based on the red channel, for example,
> but use the high-frequency components only, of the blue and green
> channels, to maximize fine detail.
>

That's kind of interesting --

You could copy the image and
convert the copy to CMYK mode,

then use levels and curves
on each color channel to modify the
gamma/histogram of each,

then use the channel mixer to make B&W images,

then layer the CMYK and RGB reductions,

perhaps with layer masks.


I've never used that before, only the channel mixer in one mode, and I've
never thought to adjust the gamma of each channel first. Doing so would
make the color image look silly, but of course that isn't the point...

Bob