I need a good B&W conversion plugin....

gus

No...im not interested in doing 10 different PS movements or else i wouldnt be asking this.

Ok that out of the way. Dont care if its free or $$. But want a few slide bars in one to change the odd thing.

Anyone know of a nice one to use ?

Ta
Gus

devbobo

Hey Gus,

A couple of months ago, a few people @ STF were talking about a B&W conversion technique by a photographer Greg Gorman.

Here's some info about the technique...
http://www.gormanphotography.com/bw_conversion.pdf

And here's a photoshop action for this method...
http://www.sd3.info/pf828/ModifiedGormanBW.atn

I have tried since I use the gimp, so I can't tell you how good it is, but maybe it's worth a try.

Cheers,

David

Mitch

Humungus wrote:

No...im not interested in doing 10 different PS movements or else i wouldnt be asking this.

Ok that out of the way. Dont care if its free or $$. But want a few slide bars in one to change the odd thing.

Anyone know of a nice one to use ?

Ta
Gus

Not sure if you are using PC or MAC, but have you looked at the FM plugin?

PC

MAC

gus

devbobo wrote:

Hey Gus,

A couple of months ago, a few people @ STF were talking about a B&W conversion technique by a photographer Greg Gorman.

Here's some info about the technique...
http://www.gormanphotography.com/bw_conversion.pdf

And here's a photoshop action for this method...
http://www.sd3.info/pf828/ModifiedGormanBW.atn

I have tried since I use the gimp, so I can't tell you how good it is, but maybe it's worth a try.

Cheers,

David

I tried DB..i really did but i keep ending up with an inverted shot. This is why i want a 'push the button' plugin. Thanks for your help though.

gus

Mitch wrote:

Not sure if you are using PC or MAC, but have you looked at the FM plugin?

PC

MAC

Have you tried it mitch ? Looks good. I forgot about FM sales.

Andy

Humungus wrote:

Have you tried it mitch ? Looks good. I forgot about FM sales.

the fm plugin works great.
but so does

new adj layer (channel mixer)
50%, 50%, 0, check the monochrome box
flatten
now do a curves adjustment for contrast (you'd do this anyhow)

or

set your 20d to raw + jpg, and change the parameters to bw. set contrast and sharpness to 1 notch higher than normal. you'll have the raw (for color if you want) and bw straight from the camera (it looks great..)

cheers mate

XO-Studios

andy wrote:

the fm plugin works great.
but so does

new adj layer (channel mixer)
50%, 50%, 0, check the monochrome box
flatten
now do a curves adjustment for contrast (you'd do this anyhow)

<SNIP>

cheers mate

Actually on channel mixer, with some pictures it pays off to adjust all three with monochrome selected, and make sure that the total stays somewhere around 100 (+/- 10). Depending on color information, it sometimes even works sending one of the channels into negative while enhancing the others.
On my pics pending what I see I at times skip the curves and layers simply by manipulating the values in channel mixer.

FWIW,

XO,

ehughes

I have the fm plugin, I like it a lot