Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorials
Color Tools / Black and White
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Stylistically black and white can give your images a nice classic feel and of course there are more then one ways to obtain this goal in Photoshop. The first, let me go ahead and turn this crop tool off, I don't really need that. The first is to go to the image menu and choose mode and greyscale. Now this is not recommended unless you're absolutely sure you don't want to change any of the tonal qualities. Now I personally don't recommend using this method and I'll just show why. Because if I go ahead and discard any information I really don't have any sliders or anything that I can use to change this image once it's converted into greyscale. So I'm pretty much done, I, I can't click on anything, I don't have any way to get back to the way the original image used to look unless I undo that greyscale or once again go to file revert. If you want to have more control then I suggest you use an adjustment layer instead and what you can do is choose the adjustment layers and choose black and white from here. Now we are presented with some sliders, we have some control and I'm gonna show you how we can use this dialog box to really make your images look great. So let me move this over a little tiny bit over here, we don't really need to deal with these buttons at the moment. What we are gonna do is choose a preset as you see we have a blue filter, which makes it kind of dark, a green filter which lightens up quite a bit. We have a high contrast blue filter and high contrast red filter and others in here. So I'm gonna put this on none for now and show you that we also have some sliders. Now even though we are in black and white don't forget Photoshop is still a channel based greyscale image editor. So we can still adjust the pixels in the image that are associated. For example reds, yellows and greens, even though we are not seeing those colors we can still play with those values. Like wise what we can do is if you hold down on your keyboard either alt or option and you click where it says cancel we can reset that and start from the very beginning. Now what I want to also show you is something cool, if you don't know exactly what part of this image is red or which parts is yellow and you really want to adjust portions of this image, I'll move this over for you and show you a little trick. if click on a part of the image and I put my mouse there and hold it down and I move my mouse left or right I can see the appropriate slider that is associated with this pixel information move up and down. So I can make the yellows darker or I can click and make the yellows brighter. Likewise I can click down here and do the same thing and now I'm working with greens. So that's a really handy technique especially when you don't know exactly what part of the image you're dealing with. What we can also do by the way is we can enter our own values by clicking an entering a percent in here for reds so I can make this 75 percent red for example. And I hit OK and I, I have then a left that dialog box. So what is I want to get back to there and make some more adjustments? Well, that's why it's an adjustment uh layer I can double click on this icon here in my layers and bring it back and I can continue to work on this. Let me show you something else that's really cool about this, I can also apply a tint and a tint will give me the ability to make a nice old fashion sepia tone kind of dual tone thing kind of going on with my image. So it's like when you go to your grandma's house and you see the pictures of her and grandpa at the park and the images all had that color. We can replicate that very easily by just adjusting the tint and we can change the hue of that tint as well so we don't have to have a sepia tone, we can have some kind of green thing going or blue or whatever uh tint your happy with. Likewise once we are happy with a tint we can also de-saturate that by moving the slider to the left or we can really saturate it quite a bit by going to the right. Likewise we also have a color swatch, we can click the swatch and go to our color picker and choose the color that we like as well for our tint. So as you can see the black and white adjustment layer allows you to interactively change how your images going to look as far as the pixel quality. Once again if you don't know what area that you would like to change click and drag your mouse left or right and then the appropriate slider will move along with it. I'm going to accept that and show you the real beauty to using an adjustments layers as opposed to going to image mode greyscale. Because we can always click the eyeball and turn that off and then get back to our pristine image if we don't like this effect. So it's nice if you want to show a client an effect or if your working on some photo retouching for a client and you want to show them a color version as well as a sepia tone old fashion style, then I highly recommend using the black and white conversion available to you as an adjustment layer.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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