Everybody’s desire: a fantastic black and white!
But how do you do it? Which method is to be used among the many that are available? And is Photoshop enough, or is it better to use a specific plugin?
Here are the techniques for a fine art black and white of the highest quality:
- How to optimize an image for converting it to black and white: the shape of the histogram, the contrast, the blacks, the image gamma, the bits/channel and the color profile.
- The Red, Green, and Blue channels and how they differ in rendering black and white images.
- Analysis of an image for its conversion into black and white using adjustment layers.
- Converting parts of an image into black and white using different techniques with localized adjustments for better emphasis on the important areas of the image.
- The use of Masks and Curves to give emphasis to contrast, highlights, shadows, and texture in the previously created black and white image.
- The use of layer fusion methods in black and white conversion.
- High-key and low-key conversion of portraits.
- The sky, in the style of Ansel Adams.
- Simulation of infrared film in Photoshop.
