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12/26/2005 01:49:39 PM · #1 |
Picked this technique up in the November/December 2005 Digital PhotoPro magazine. Looks like it'll be awesome and I can't wait to try it out. First of all though, this technique is NOT BASIC EDITING LEGAL!
Step 1: Open your photo that you wish to be black and white TWICE in photoshop. Make one of them b/w using your choice of desat techniques.
Step 2: Copy the Blue channel from the color version onto the b/w version. Repeat with the Red and Green channels. You can now play around with opacity and blending techniques to fine tune your image.
By keeping the color version open though is where this technique becomes very cool as you can use Color Selection on the color version. Make a layer mask on one of the color channel layers you created on the b/w version using the hide all option. Drag the color selection from the color version to the newly created layer mask and voila! (Since they are both the same pixel size, hold down the Shift key while draging/dropping and you will get the exact same placement on the b/W version.) This gives you localized controll over the blending of the three channels! See the possibilities?
Message edited by author 2005-12-26 13:50:47. |
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12/26/2005 02:27:27 PM · #2 |
Saw the same article, haven't tried it yet. Got any examples to show us? Maybe a before-and-after?
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12/26/2005 02:52:54 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Saw the same article, haven't tried it yet. Got any examples to show us? Maybe a before-and-after?
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Bein' Christmas weekend, I didn't get a chance to play yet. As soon as I get home from work tonite! :-) |
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12/27/2005 08:53:04 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by TooCool:
First of all though, this technique is NOT BASIC EDITING LEGAL!
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I wondered when I saw the article if it would be advanced editing legal? After all it's using two images. I realize that its the same image, but it's still merging two images. |
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12/27/2005 09:14:11 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by hyperfocal:
Originally posted by TooCool:
First of all though, this technique is NOT BASIC EDITING LEGAL!
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I wondered when I saw the article if it would be advanced editing legal? After all it's using two images. I realize that its the same image, but it's still merging two images. |
It would be legal for Advanced Editing, since...
1.) You are not using multiple source images, only two copies of the same image (same as combining two conversions of the same RAW image).
2.) You are not moving elements (nor creating or removing them)
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12/28/2005 12:28:51 PM · #6 |
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