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Old 15th of May 2009 (Fri)   #1
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Default B & W help needed....
I need all the help I can get with this one, I love the shot, but I cannot get it to look right no matter what I do...... HELP
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Old 15th of May 2009 (Fri)   #2
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Default Re: B & W help needed....
There's no right or wrong. How is it you want the photo to look?
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it just seems too photoshopped to me, i cropped it, did the B&W conversion, adjusted the the B&W, then it looked funny so I sharpened it a lil , and now it looks like crap to me.. all I wanted was a clean simple B7W closeup
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it seems out of focus to me now too....... I know it wasn't the orriginal is falwless except its HUGE and color........
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more contrast. less gray. make whites WHITE and blacks BLACK! turn image editing on and i can give an example
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Looks like a pretty good B&W closeup to me. Can you post the uncropped color version?
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post the original too
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the original is HUGE like 16MB..... editing is on now though
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you should have an account at photobucket. they down size it for you to 1024 on the side and its free.
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see but now to me it looks forced ... its too adjusted looking
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it does i agree. but you also have the original color to work with. i was showing you what whites and blacks should look like. your image has no pop and its oversharpened. get BW Filter Julian's way + Curves. its a free action for PS and helps greatly in BW conversions
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