B&W Conversion Technique

travischance

I'm eager to create more high-contrast B&W images. To date, I've been using the Calculations method in CS4 & typically modifying the Red & Gray channels & using the Overlay or Multiply blending modes. The results: sometimes pretty good & others, not so much. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

arodney

In Photoshop: http://photoshopnews.com/2009/03/19/advanced-color-to-black-and-white-conversion/
http://www.pixelgenius.com/tips/schewe-color-bw.pdf

In Lightroom/ACR?: http://photoshopnews.com/stories/downloads/LRNgrayscale_STD2.mov

travischance

arodney wrote: »

In Photoshop: http://photoshopnews.com/2009/03/19/advanced-color-to-black-and-white-conversion/
http://www.pixelgenius.com/tips/schewe-color-bw.pdf

In Lightroom/ACR?: http://photoshopnews.com/stories/downloads/LRNgrayscale_STD2.mov

Much appreciated!

jjbong

There's a sticky at the top of this forum with lots of good material on this:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=114917

kenglade

travischance wrote: »

I'm eager to create more high-contrast B&W images. To date, I've been using the Calculations method in CS4 & typically modifying the Red & Gray channels & using the Overlay or Multiply blending modes. The results: sometimes pretty good & others, not so much. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Have you tried Silver Efex Pro? It's an amazing program.

HarlanBear

kenglade wrote: »

Have you tried Silver Efex Pro? It's an amazing program.

Fantastic B&W conversion software. Really great tone controls. But it does cost and is a Photoshop plugin. It's from Nik Software and I'm sure you can download a trial version.