Black and White

[Matt30D]

I really want to do a better job converting my colored images to Black and white...is there a better way than using gray-scale to convert? I have CS3, Lightroom and adobe camera raw.

[René Damkot]

Have a look over at Russel Brown's site (http://russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html).

There's "CS3 Script Tutorial: Dr. Brown's Black and White Conversion" for starters.

[sevillafox]

Here's another one from a POTN member.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=404206

[davidbell]

You need to be able to control which colours become black, which become white and which become grayscale. Have a look at this -> converting color to black and white (http://chrislongley.com/blacknwhite_conversion/black_and_white_with_photoshop.html)

Also specifically for RAW files try this black and white image conversion with RAW files (http://chrislongley.com/blacknwhite_conversion/digital_photo_professional_raw_black_and_white.htm )

[Lowner]

Try using Photoshops channel mixer. It has a monochrome option which will allow you to do as davidbell has suggested.

Richard

[davidbell]

I think in CS3 the channel mixer has been superseded by this black n white tool (http://www.chrislongley.com/blacknwhite_conversion/photoshop_black_and_white_tool.htm)

If you're converting RAW files then try monochrome picture style (http://www.chrislongley.com/blacknwhite_conversion/digital_photo_professional_raw_black_and_white.htm ) with a filter selected. I've had excellent results from that, nice rich deep blacks. If you're shooting Canon then you probably got DPP when you got the camera.

David