Method to my Madness [BW Conversion Discussion]
I have had a lot of people wonder what I start out with for an image and how I achieve the contrast results. I have included the before, the transition and the final image result. I use a selection breakdown and use levels to isolate tones and contrast from various parts. In this particular image masks were applied to three seperate areas as colour coded and then individually adjusted for contrast using levels. Hope this well help some. If you have questions let me know! This is more of method to my madness than a tutorial but will help some understand how I evaluate my work before toning each image.
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Thank you for sharing your workflow. BW conversion is something we are struggling with and this is great help.
How do you create the layer masks? We tend to get edge effects, so we are probably doing something wrong.
thanks for sharing
will be trying it out here: http://niralon.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/monochrome-resolution/
Hey man, i love your works. I think i have to learn to see in black and white. Thanks for sharing your pictures with us.