Today we’ll look at some techniques for converting digital color images to black and white. We’ll talk about how colors get assigned to light or dark shades of grey depending on what channel is being emphasized.
Sign in
Sign in
Recover your password.
A password will be e-mailed to you.
A initially learned photography as a kid shooting black & white then developing the photos in a dark room, that was a magical time and sparked my interest in photography. As I got older I dabbled in digital photography but wasn't until my kids were born that i really started to get an active interest back in it all.
Next Post
24 Comments
Leave A Reply
Cancel Reply
Cool, not sure how I missed this one first time through…
I'm glad you addressed the "sculpture" in the foreground. When I first saw the image, I thought it was a pile of construction debris. My bad!
I think you are one of the most careful, learned, thoughtful voices on youtube with regard to this subject. It's a joy to watch your programming. This is applicable to everything I've seen of yours; I'm just commenting here because this is such a great tutorial and I was putting it to use (interestingly in Lightroom, not Photoshop, but the concepts were the same and easily applied). I hope you continue to have success with this content, first as a reward for your hard work, and second (more selfishly), so you'll continue to make it. Thank you so much.
Hi, chap I have watched a few of your videos now and man you talk way toooooooo fast, slow down a bit buddy!!
Is the second one a RAW file? Asking because of the noise on pulling down the blues.
suggestion…less coffee…
Are there some kind of rule among photoshop-teachers to talk as fast as possible? Otherwise, great video.
I do most of my processing in Capture One. I can do that conversion that you did on the water tank, I prefer my results. Saturation and white balance both affect the final outcome. C1 also has a colour editor that affects the outcome. I've seen a video where Christian Fletcher demonstrates it.
In your HDR episode you talked about weird, unnatural effects. I think your vignettes weird and unnatural.
I don't have a problem with weird and unnatural per se, but given that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I rarely express an opinion on beauty. I do sometimes reflect on what I like, or suggest alternatives as alternatives, leaving it to the reader to decide which they prefer.
Great series on B&W. Really getting a lot out of this. Thank you for posting these.
channels is the best and only way i do black and whites
Thank you so much for this video.
Thanks so much for this. Very helpful and I am also a big fan of Ansel Adams work but I shoot digital. Is it just my screen or is there some major banding going on in both the water tower and the night scene image. If it's in the image, do you have some pointers for avoiding that? My 5D Mark II did that with skies sometimes, too. Not sure if the Mark III does as well. Haven't shot with it much yet.
photography news
wonderful thanks for taking your time for sharing your knowledge
Just discovered your stuff, awesome tutorials. The content actually stuck. Better than trying to read this stuff in my magazines!
great informative video…thanks
That's it exactly…
So that's why sky/cloud filters are red! They darken the blue sky, right? Can someone verify this? I'm just starting to wade into the pool of photography and most of my information comes from videos like Forbes'!
hay a quick question what couler filter would you use tomake skintone stanout
Hey there Ted, is there any reason you use Photoshop over Lightroom to work with your photos?
I'm just curious, as I've been using lightroom because of the workflow.
Thanks!
I know, right? I've said that before too!
Best video on explaining fully how to convert to a black and white image
THANKS A LOT!!!!
I love black and white photography but because All I have shot with is digital I wasnt happy with my black and white converstions, and was a miss or match thing…
Just know I have a photo that I know I want in BW but I wasnt happy with the results because the subjet does not stand out from the backround. Applying what you explaing here I could edit the way I wanted to…THANKS!