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Photoshop: Perfect Black and White images

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Uploaded by on Jun 4, 2007

Hi rez version at tutorialbucket.googlepages.com A tasty selection of methods for turning a color image into the perfect black and white. Channel mixing, channel copying and more are all here.

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  • my problem is that. when i use the channels to make my pic black and white and i save it as a jpeg.i still get a colored pic. is it possible to simply pik the red channel and use what that gives u in a pic

  • I think you better watch the video again. You have to select all in a channel, then copy, then go back to the layers palette and paste it in before you can save anything.

  • how are you making the copy layer and renaming it. I can't get it to work. ALl I get is a white layer.

  • Make sure the layer to be copied is chosen. Then hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E (PC) or Cmnd+Optn+Shift+E (Mac)

  • What program did you use to make this tutorial?

  • Camtasia studio. You can download a trial version from Techsmith

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  • the whole reason he made this video is to show an alternative to Desaturate, which will lower the quality of the picture.

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  • @ranash1995 Thank you! Someone at least say this :)

  • I was really hoping for a tutorial on true "Black", and "White" and not all that grey. Photoshop is making duotone very complicated. X.x

  • Thank you! :)

  • too complicated don't even know how to "copy things to they're own layer" - wtf?

  • way too complicated for me. i just use a b&w "action" when editing a batch of photos

  • @CeNaTyLeR Yeah, it's called threshold.

  • very nice of you to put such fab vids on youtube free... dont know why you dont make make your own dvds and charge for them! your tutorials r great :)

  • Is there a way to make the image ONLY black or white, with no gray areas.

  • @ranash1995 the vid was really great especially the lab mode

    but the problem is that i can't save a jpeg or jpg copy? how can i save such format?

    all whats available is only psd eps pdd or raw

    pls reply thanks

  • superb....... i think you have lots of knowledge about color channel . i like your video tutorial.

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