colour to black and white

On Sun, 22 May 2005 21:02:28 +0100, "" <daznotathome.com> wrote:

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

How many ways do you want?

1. Image/Mode/Desaturate. Quick and marginally effective.

2. Image/Mode/ Grayscale. Almost equivalent, but it changes the image from an RGB image. OTOH, it doesn’t leave the image as flat looking as Desaturate.

3. Go to the layer palette and add a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Take the saturation down to zero Same effect as with
image/mode/grayscale, but without altering the actual image.

4. Use the Channel Mixer. Open it up, tick the monochrome box and adjust the sliders. Keep the total percentage around about 100%. A good place to start is usually Red 40% Green 60%. Work from there.

That should keep you busy for a while.

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On Sun, 22 May 2005 21:02:28 +0100, "" <daznotathome.com> wrote:

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

How many ways do you want?

1. Image/Mode/Desaturate. Quick and marginally effective.
2. Image/Mode/ Grayscale. Almost equivalent, but it changes the image from an RGB image. OTOH, it doesn’t leave the image as flat looking as Desaturate.

3. Go to the layer palette and add a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Take the saturation down to zero Same effect as with
image/mode/grayscale, but without altering the actual image.
4. Use the Channel Mixer. Open it up, tick the monochrome box and adjust the sliders. Keep the total percentage around about 100%. A good place to start is usually Red 40% Green 60%. Work from there.
That should keep you busy for a while.

—

Hecate – The Real One

Fashion: Buying things you don’t need, with money
you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like…

"" <daznotathome.com> wrote in message

cheers

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On Sun, 22 May 2005 21:02:28 +0100, "" <daznotathome.com> wrote:

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

How many ways do you want?

1. Image/Mode/Desaturate. Quick and marginally effective.
2. Image/Mode/ Grayscale. Almost equivalent, but it changes the image from an RGB image. OTOH, it doesn’t leave the image as flat looking as Desaturate.

3. Go to the layer palette and add a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Take the saturation down to zero Same effect as with
image/mode/grayscale, but without altering the actual image.
4. Use the Channel Mixer. Open it up, tick the monochrome box and adjust the sliders. Keep the total percentage around about 100%. A good place to start is usually Red 40% Green 60%. Work from there.
That should keep you busy for a while.

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Or switch to LAB colour and copy the lightness channel – tends to produce a better result.

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"" <daznotathome.com> wrote:

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

Image->Mode->Grayscale is the easiest way…

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wrote:

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

For the most elaborate method (and the most control), the winner is:

http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html

Note: there is a Photoshop action that can be downloaded.

–David

just click control and u and pull saturation tothe left . "" <daznotathome.com> wrote in message

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

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<daznotathome.com> says…

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

In addition to all the suggestions already given you might find my discussion of using color film to make b&w useful. It is mostly concerned with emulating color filters.
Just follow the tips link on my home page and look for the one about b&w film being obsolete…

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that’s not really as complicated as it sounds
an interesting method, can’t wait to compare it with what I’ve been doing

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wrote:

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

For the most elaborate method (and the most control), the winner is:
http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html

Note: there is a Photoshop action that can be downloaded.
–David

wrote:

how do you turn a regular colour image into a black and white one with PS7

For most elaborate method, and that with the most control, the following is the winner.

http://www.adobe.com/tips/phs8colorbw/main.html

–David