Black and White Conversion

This video answers the question posed in the January 26, 2009 edition of Tim Grey's free Digital Darkroom Questions email newsletter (www.timgrey.com/ddq/). It demonstrates the use of the Black & White adjustment layer in Photoshop CS4 to produce a black & white interpretation of a color photographic image.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Photoshop
• Black and White
• Photography
• Conversion
• Tim Grey
• DDQ

[timgreyvideos]

Photoshop CS2 doesn't include the Black & White adjustment layer, but you can use the Channel Mixer adjustment layer with the Monochrome checkbox turned on to get similar results. It doesn't offer the "direct adjustment" capability, and doesn't allow you to adjust as many channels, but it is the "next best thing" for those who aren't using Photoshop CS3 or later.

[ShootingOutside]

A most convenient way to manage black & white adjustments.

[cutterschoicenotmine]

I think your better opening to image in camera raw, making changes to the part of the photo you want to, shift click to add that as a smart object. Duplicate it, rasterize the duplication then going back and changing what you want to the second part of the image you want to change. Layer masking and painting in. Then adding layers and filters. Personal preference I suppose but the exposure, parametic graph and fill light in camera raw are really helpful.

[allenaisenstein]

Very informative and well done! Reference to Photoshop CS2 also would be a helpful addition if time permits.

Thanks for sharing.

Allen Aisenstein

[campphotoshop]

Tim, right on the money with this straight forward presentation on the black and white adjustment option.