Digital Art Tips

Black and White Conversion

There are MANY ways to convert an image to black and white. Here is a unique version I discovered today.
Converting colour to black & white using the Lab mode technique

If the whole process just seems like too much work, he even has it worked up into an action to download.

Here is my try at it. The top photo is the original JPG out of my camera and the bottom is my try at this technique. The cool thing about this is you create a duotone type effect. If you are using the action, it uses the foreground color for your second tone. If you forget to pick it first, it can easily be chaged later as the action creates a solid color tonal layer and you can changethe fill color to whatever you what. This color is #EBDDB2 which gives a nice sepia tone.

posted by Trish @ 12:13 PM