Urban Dream Home......

This is an old (last year) photo from a trip to England.
I am still experimenting with different b/w conversions.
I wish there was just an easy, 'press here' button to convert.

I don't! B&W conversion is one of the funniest things in PS for me...anyway, the conversion here is good and the perspective intreresting, I like it!
thanx for sharing,
T.O.

Nice conversion. The only problem I see is the "halo effect" on the right side of the building. Try cutting the building to a new layer and then burn your sky. I had this same issue with a recent conversion and thats basically what I was told to do. It work out good, made a much better looking image.

Thanks guys,
not sure where the halo came from, as my adjustments were for all of the image, no selections like the sky or building..????.
I will go back and give it another try.
Cheers
Marty

a method I have fun with is taking the original image, make sure foreground is set to black, apply a gradient filter from the menu at the bottom of your layer pallete. Then applying a channel mixer on top of that, adjust those until you get what you were after. . . Sometimes I find altering the exposure with the channel mixer, which is, all sliders must add up to 100 to maintain the exposure, if you make them add up to something higher - then you over exposing, then take the bottom slider and move it into the negative, you really increase the contrast and it can turn out pretty cool. . . you have to play around a bit.

Marty -- Great Shot...I love it and good conversion.
I know exactly what you mean...I don't know if they have these in OZ...but you gotta get one

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Hi marty
Very good shot....
Your b & w conversion is very good.....
and here it mine :

copy the background layer and convert it into BW using the channel mixer
and change the layers blending mode to "Hue" or "Colour".....
one of them will work......
Now in many of my conversions I saw the change of blending mode
doing the trick......
It exposes the picture very nicely.......
It doesn't workout all the time but when it does the picture looks good...
I don't know wether its gonna work on ur image or not........
but you may give it a try........

Keep up the good work......
Regards
Kaipu

Than you can flatten the image and
copy the background layer and change
the top layers blending to "Darken", "overlay"
or whatever you like and see the changes in contrast
and when it looks good to your eyes just flatten the image
save for the web and post it here......

Kaipu