David Ernest asked me yesterday if I use the black and white setting on the camera or translate my colour images into black and white using Photoshop. I prefer the latter method because it gives me more choice. I made this picture on a very dark and rainy day so I had to use a high ISO rating, resulting in quite a bit of noise. I turned the colour image into black and white with
Russell Brown's method using two Hue/Saturation layers. If you are working with the full Photoshop CS3 to CS5 look at
Russell Brown's Photoshop Laboratory Experiments. He is quite corny but the tutorials are excellent.
Hey Mike,
ReplyDeleteThis is an image of beautiful structure and lighting. I can't quite figure out why so many get all twisted out of shape over digital noise, or film grain. Personally, I think it often adds texture to an image. Thanks for this. Dave
Thanks, Mike, for the Russell Brown lead. Have looked at his program at your suggestion and will further pursue it. A great fun presentation.
ReplyDeleteHi Mike: Could you clarify how you used "Russell Brown's method using two Hue/Saturation layers". I've found Russell Brown's method (your link doesn't work by the way) and there are no Hue/Adjustment layers in his presentation.
ReplyDeleteIts a great photo and I know that I wouldn't have seen it.
Bob
Nice design.
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