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10/20/2009 08:13:11 AM · #1 |
Hey everyone,
I'm looking for a great way to do Black and Whites. I find when i do them skin tones end up looking kind of muddy and the pictures look kind of dead looking. I usually use the RAW dialogue, drop the saturation then play with contrast, shadows, recovery etc....
just wondering if anyone has a better way of doing them?
thanks.
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10/20/2009 08:23:30 AM · #2 |
| Try virtual photographer. It's free and has lots of great options. link |
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10/20/2009 08:23:54 AM · #3 |
Try out this tutorial B&W Conversion. It describes several straightforward methods to convert to B/W. If you are using CS4, you can also use the b/w filter and choose the color of filter to give you the look you are after.
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10/20/2009 10:05:44 AM · #4 |
| By doing a custom b&w layer in photoshop you can adjust the sliders to change different colours in your photo .... |
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10/21/2009 08:21:18 AM · #5 |
| hey Kelli... virtual photographer looks pretty awesome... but is there a mac version? or a program just like it for mac that you or anyone else knows of? |
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10/21/2009 08:41:28 AM · #6 |
| Not sure that you're interested in buying a program/plugin, but Silver Efex Pro is so awesome for B&W. I use it exclusively ever since I got it. Super fast, very easy, completely intuitive. |
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10/21/2009 08:48:06 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Maver:
hey Kelli... virtual photographer looks pretty awesome... but is there a mac version? or a program just like it for mac that you or anyone else knows of? |
Sorry, I'm on a PC so I never looked. But it appears there is no mac version. They claimed back in our own forums in 2004 that they were looking into a mac version, but I see nothing has yet to come of it. From a google search, it appears people run virtual PC on their macs to use it. |
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10/21/2009 09:14:47 AM · #8 |
If you use Photoshop, the channel mixer is a good way of doing the conversion. I use PaintShop pro, which does not have a good channel mixer, so I use either Topaz Detail or this plugin to do my B/W stuff:
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