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09/01/2005 09:21:45 PM · #1 |
| I have a portrait that I think will be better in black and white, it also needs cropping and some cloning and blurring of the back ground. Is it best to desaturate first or last? What are the steps you take to get your portraits to go from color to black and white and be at their best in the end? |
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09/01/2005 09:23:20 PM · #2 |
I use the channel mixer on monochrome. For me it's more like the B&W darkroom.
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09/01/2005 09:48:14 PM · #3 |
| If you are doing blurring of the background, wouldn't it make sense to do your selection before you do the B&W? The difference in colour can help your selection tools. This can allow you to create a much cleaner blur effect on your background. Aside from this I can't comment much. |
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09/01/2005 09:51:57 PM · #4 |
| This is exactly what I'm looking for, these are both things that I didn't think of, being rather new to photoshop and they both seem very reasonable to me. Bout ready to try again. Thanks, anybody else? |
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09/01/2005 10:06:11 PM · #5 |
I would create three adjustment layers
in this order
1 your image - bottom layer
2 levels layers
3 hue saturation
4 channel mixer - top layer
should appear in reverse order in photoshop
check the monochrome box on the channel mixer
then use the hue saturation to adjust reds blues greens etc to taste
kinda like using black and white filters.
after that merge your layers and create 2 duplicate layers
blur the middle to taste I find that 2-4 gaussian blur works pretty well
on the top layer use the eraser to erase everyting that you want blurred
be sure to use a fairly large brush when you can with the softness set
about 20-30
check this recent wedding I did a selective color with this similar process.wedding photo gallery
edit - look at images 11 and 22 and 28
Message edited by author 2005-09-01 22:35:24. |
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09/01/2005 10:31:02 PM · #6 |
| So far with photoshop the only way I would print in B/W is with Quad tone RIP. The options and clearity is the best. Go to www.harrington.com to download. They do ask for a donation of $50.00 but it si worth it!. |
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