Help needed with effects in Photoshop – please help

Download "Seeing in Black & White" from Russell Brown’s site. This tutorial will tell you how to use Hue-Saturation adjustment layers to mimic many of the effects you can get with filters in traditional (film) B&W photography.

UNFORTUNATELY he has recently converted *all* of the tutorials on his site to QuickTime videos, which I think is a *huge* mistake.

It is just under the "Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 tips" banner. http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Luckily, this tutorial is still available in HTML and PDF formats from Adobe’s site. You can get an HTML version of the tutorial at http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html

Or download a PDF version, again from the Adobe site, at http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/pdfs/phs8colorbw.pdf

There are *many* other good resources for this subject "on the web." Use your friendly local search engine, and you will easily find them.

A couple of useful URLs I’ve found this way would be

Jeff Alu
http://www.animalu.com/pics/process.htm

Luminous Landscape
http://luminous-landscape.com/essays/bw-revival.shtml
http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/b-w_better.shtml http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/duotone.shtml
While you are at the LL web site … be sure to check out the menu items at the top of the page. You’ll probably find several other presentations that interest you.

PowerRetouch (commercial product)
http://www.powerretouche.com/Black-white_plugin_introduction .htm

SilverOxide (commercial product)
http://www.silveroxide.com/BWTech.htm

Vincent Versace presented a technique for converting color images to B&W at an Epson seminar. Try
http://www.photoshopworld.com/aftershow/sanfran04/aftershow. html it’s an 18Mb download though.

"Neil Hindry" wrote in message

I wonder if you can help me.

I used to do a bit of B&W film photography and would like to try and replicate some of the things I used to do in B&W photography digitally.
I used to add a red filter to the front of my camera’s lens and it would increase the colour of blue’s & greens. For example it would make the sky appear dark and dramatic.

Can someone please tell me how I can duplicate the effect of a red filter

to

a B&W picture in Photoshop 7?
Please keep your instructions simple as I have not used Photoshop for

long.

Any help or information given will be gratefully appreciated.
I hope you can help.

Thanks!

Neil Hindry wrote:

I wonder if you can help me.

I used to do a bit of B&W film photography and would like to try and replicate some of the things I used to do in B&W photography digitally.
I used to add a red filter to the front of my camera’s lens and it would increase the colour of blue’s & greens. For example it would make the sky appear dark and dramatic.

Can someone please tell me how I can duplicate the effect of a red filter to a B&W picture in Photoshop 7?
Please keep your instructions simple as I have not used Photoshop for long.
Any help or information given will be gratefully appreciated.
I hope you can help.

Thanks!

OK- Here is something you can try.
If you have a grey-tone image, you first have to go in File – Mode and change the color space to RGB. Then add a new layer and fill it with red color. Then reduce the opacity to a level where you perhaps get something like the effect you are looking for. This is the easiest way of doing it, but if it works – who knows? If it does not work go to File – adjustments – Hue/Saturation, click the colorize box (lower right) and play around with the handles. Best of luck. Edgar

RSD99 wrote:

Download "Seeing in Black & White" from Russell Brown’s site. This tutorial will tell you how to use Hue-Saturation adjustment layers to mimic many of the effects you can get with filters in traditional (film) B&W photography.
UNFORTUNATELY he has recently converted *all* of the tutorials on his site to QuickTime videos, which I think is a *huge* mistake.

I see you feel strongly about that. Why is it a mistake?

—
John McWilliams

Neil Hindry wrote:

I wonder if you can help me.

I used to do a bit of B&W film photography and would like to try and replicate some of the things I used to do in B&W photography digitally.
I used to add a red filter to the front of my camera’s lens and it would increase the colour of blue’s & greens. For example it would make the sky appear dark and dramatic.

Can someone please tell me how I can duplicate the effect of a red filter to a B&W picture in Photoshop 7?
Please keep your instructions simple as I have not used Photoshop for long.
Any help or information given will be gratefully appreciated.
I hope you can help.

Thanks!

Im not good at it either but try ‘levels’ or ‘curves’ which I think come under the ‘images’ menu.

L Mahoney wrote in
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Neil Hindry wrote:

I wonder if you can help me.

I used to do a bit of B&W film photography and would like to try and replicate some of the things I used to do in B&W photography digitally.

I used to add a red filter to the front of my camera’s lens and it would increase the colour of blue’s & greens. For example it would make the sky appear dark and dramatic.

Can someone please tell me how I can duplicate the effect of a red filter to a B&W picture in Photoshop 7?
Please keep your instructions simple as I have not used Photoshop for long.

Any help or information given will be gratefully appreciated.
I hope you can help.

Thanks!

Im not good at it either but try ‘levels’ or ‘curves’ which I think come under the ‘images’ menu.

Neil,

Sorry I couldn’t locate your original post so I’m tacking it on the end of this follow up in the hope thgat you are still reading the thread.

I think that your best bet would be to use the Channel Mixer.

Assuming that you are starting with a colour picture from your digital camera, go to Image / Adjustments / Channel Mixer…

In the Channel Mixer dialog check ‘Monochrome’

To give the red filter effect, increase red from it’s default 100% and decrease both green and blue by equal amounts to maintain an overall 100% figure for all 3 channels.

For example: Increase red to 140% and Decrease Green and Blue by 20% each (i.e. set them to -20%)

Hope that’s the effect you’re looking for.