I ended up entering a duotone in the Fashion challenge... I guess I was conflicted... Anyway, I got to play with different ways of converting a color image to B&W and just wanted to share with folks who may be learning this stuff, too.
This is an outtake from my Fashion "shoot" - and let me just say that I really want to thank my model. He was very patient and held very still for me...
If you simply convert this image to grayscale, which is based on luminousity (or so I'm told), you get this:
Rather dark and dull, huh? So I tried using the channel mixer thing in Photoshop (which I'd not tried before), selected Red 100%, then checked the Monochrome box, and got this:
Way better! At least to me, anyway.
To do the duotone (as a lot of you did for the last challenge), I converted the channel mixed version to grayscale, then picked a purple duotone, then converted back the RGB mode so it could be saved as a jpeg.
Not a ribbon winner to be sure, but I like it better than the original. And learned lots, too! |
