Re: Digital B&W photography

Try not to get too upset Cheryl. It's just talk..

Anyway, I stumbled upon this technique of few weeks ago in
alt.graphics.Photoshop It's really great. The guys delivery of the video
tut is a bit annoying to me but the technique is great. I have added a
couple of my own additions as I am sure most of you will as well. Worth
checking out.

It's the "Photo Toner Technique"

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

Enjoy









"Cheryl Harms" <pretty_patches@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> All right. Now I'm PO'd big time! You guys and your assumptions that
> things can only have one solution and that it has got to be yours make me
> sick. It is obvious to me that you have neither looked at the example of
> my work that I gave you nor have the imagination it really takes to do
> this. Why don't you look at some work and then decide rather than assume
> that if someone doesn't spend hours reworking a photo that it has to be
> bad work? Get a life! Oh, I forgot. That is why you have to sit for hours
> in front of your computer tweaking every single layer and facet of your
> image--you don't HAVE a life!
>
> "Diverse Art" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Cheryl Harms wrote:
>>
>>> There are a couple of ways you could do it.The first step would be to do
>>> the thing no one likes to do...read your owners manual and you should
>>> find
>>> instructions on how to change to b&w settings on your camera menu. The
>>> second way is to shoot in color then either use the desaturate or
>>> grayscale commands in Photoshop.
>>
>> I'm not sure the D-70 has a mono setting. And there are better ways of
>> getting B&W in Photoshop than simply reducing saturation to 0 or
>> switching
>> to greyscale (both of which tend to result in rather dull, low-contrast
>> images). There are lots of tutorials around for this, but one of the
>> best,
>> and simplest, ways is to use the channel mixer. Because you are,
>> effectively, modifying the response of the red, green and blue channels
>> individually, you can mimic the effect not just of different types of B&W
>> film (including a kind of pseudo-infrared) but also the effect of
>> different
>> filters. As an example, if you reduce the blue channel considerably, this
>> is like having a red filter - everything containing a lot of blue,
>> including clear skies, gets darker.
>>
>> The great advantage is that you can shoot in colour and then you have
>> complete choice over how you want to represent the image later.
>>
>> I'd also highly recommend PhotoKit which includes a whole bunch of
>> photographic effects including various colour to B&W conversions.
>>
>> --
>> www.diverse-art.com
>
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