Black and white photo

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Jan 30, 2005
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Hi,

Can anyone tell me how i make a black and white photo that looks like this one of Angeline Jolie:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beyond_borders/

I’ve tried Grayscale and levels, but it doesn’t quite work.

Thanks 🙂

/ RoJo
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SamMan
Jan 30, 2005
"RoJo" <r j o n a s s e n @ h o t m a i l. c o m> wrote in message
Hi,

Can anyone tell me how i make a black and white photo that looks like this one of Angeline Jolie:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beyond_borders/

I’ve tried Grayscale and levels, but it doesn’t quite work.
Thanks 🙂

/ RoJo

It’s a desiderated layer (or grayscale layer converted back to RGB) blended with a color one(s). Do a Google search, or look in the help files for Layer Masks… That will put you on the right road.

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Mike Russell
Jan 31, 2005
RoJo wrote:
Hi,

Can anyone tell me how i make a black and white photo that looks like this one of Angeline Jolie:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beyond_borders/

I’ve tried Grayscale and levels, but it doesn’t quite work.

This is a classical fashion effect, and it’s better if the original image is lit very evenly. After convert to grayscale, create an adjustment layer, and fiddle with curves for a while until you get the look you want. If your curves are set up with white on the right, the curve for this effect bows upward and then levels off to make the whole image lighter.

If you lose detail in an areas where you want it, use the layer mask feature – paint black or dark gray where you want to eliminate or reduce the effect of the curve where you want to keep things dark. It looks like they did this for the area around the eyes, which incidentally are still in color in your example.
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RoJo
Jan 31, 2005
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This is a classical fashion effect, and it’s better if the original image
is
lit very evenly. After convert to grayscale, create an adjustment layer, and fiddle with curves for a while until you get the look you want. If
your
curves are set up with white on the right, the curve for this effect bows upward and then levels off to make the whole image lighter.
If you lose detail in an areas where you want it, use the layer mask feature – paint black or dark gray where you want to eliminate or reduce
the
effect of the curve where you want to keep things dark. It looks like
they
did this for the area around the eyes, which incidentally are still in
color
in your example.
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Thanks Mike

It’s very difficult to get the same look… but i’ll get the touch 🙂

/ RoJo

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