Photoshop Training - Day8
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alfiettaP H O TO S H O P F O R D I G I TA L P H O TO G R A P H E R S
Day Eight
Instructor:
Scott Kelby
Todays Lesson:
From Color to B&W Camera Raw
Camera Raw is a surpisingly great place to make your Black& White conversions, once you know the secrets.
Key Concepts:
Most people think of going to Photoshop before they convert their image to Black & White but you can
make surprisingly good conversions in Camera Raw that you might find much easier than in Photoshop.
You start by dragging the Camera Raw Saturation slider all the way to the left, which removes all color
and gives you a black-&-white image, but its a bit flat. To increase the contrast, you can use the Exposure
slider (drag it to the right until you get Higlight warnings). Then drag the Shadows slider to the right, and if
youre really going for that high-contrast black-&-white photo, then let some of the non-critial areas turn to
solid black. Then, choose different White Balance presets and see how they affect the black-&-white photo
(youll be surprised how well this works). Lastly, drag the contrast slider to the right until the photo really
pops. Of course, you can also tweak the Brightness (midtones) slider to help you keep detail in the photo.
Keyboard Shortcuts Used:
When youve got two versions of the same photo (like we did in the tutorial, where one image was the
high contrast black-&-white, and the other was a duplicate using the standard grayscale conversion), you
can drag one image onto the other, and automatically have them perfectly aligned, pixel-to-pixel, one on
top of the other by holding the SHIFT key before you drag the image on top.
Additional Material Not Covered In Class:
Depending on your Camera, the lighting conditions, and the ISO you shot the image at, your Raw photo
could contain some color noise (those annoying red, green, and blue dots that sometimes appear in
shadow areas). You can often reduce that noise by going under the Detail tab and dragging the Color
Noise Reduction slider to the right. If you wind up doing this, theres a trick youll want to know so you can
see a before/after as you apply the slider. Just click and hold within the Preview window, and youll see
what the image looked like before you applied the color noise reduction; then release the mouse button
to see what it looks like after its applied.
