http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/make-better-black-and-white-conversions-in-photoshop/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:57:56 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/make-better-black-and-white-conversions-in-photoshop/comment-page-1/#comment-13162 Simon Cohen Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:08:45 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=339894#comment-13162 This is a GREAT site and this is a lovely guide to make your photos black and white: http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/black-and-white-digital-conversion/ This is a GREAT site and this is a lovely guide to make your photos black and white:
http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/black-and-white-digital-conversion/

]]> http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/08/make-better-black-and-white-conversions-in-photoshop/comment-page-1/#comment-13153 Citizen Charles Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:32:23 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=339894#comment-13153 The whole process of converting color to b&w is so arcane and complex that it should challenge the most serious amateur. Certainly the old desaturate technique is pretty passe for good reason. However if you are running Photoshop CS4 the adjustment "b&w" will be more than adequate for most purposes (allowing for many fine adjustments and including presets) - Helen Bradley's suggestion really is only one of many - I mean MANY - and one I had minimal success with it. Picasa's results were OK with a couple of photos so I tried my favorite viewer/quick editor FastStone Image Viewer (http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm)(also free) and got very good results. (Just a user). The whole process of converting color to b&w is so arcane and complex that it should challenge the most serious amateur.
Certainly the old desaturate technique is pretty passe for good reason.
However if you are running Photoshop CS4 the adjustment “b&w” will be more than adequate for most purposes (allowing for many fine adjustments and including presets) – Helen Bradley’s suggestion really is only one of many – I mean MANY – and one I had minimal success with it.
Picasa’s results were OK with a couple of photos so I tried my favorite viewer/quick editor FastStone Image Viewer (http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm)(also free) and got very good results. (Just a user).

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