Overview
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Ben Long shares strategies for capturing the best black and white images and techniques for converting to black and white in Photoshop.
Syllabus
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1. Introduction
- Welcome
- Why black and white?
- Suggested prerequisites
- Using the exercise files
- Is it really black and white?
- How gray corresponds to color
- The medium of black and white
- The vocabulary of black and white
- The physiology of black and white
- How a camera's image sensor captures an image
- Preparing the camera
- Light revisited
- Seeing in black and white
- Taking a black-and-white expedition
- Finding and shooting a black-and-white image
- Shooting a tone-based subject
- Exposing for black and white
- The nature of grayscale images
- Converting to black and white using Photoshop CS4 or CS5
- More about the Black & White dialog box
- Converting to black and white using Black & White adjustment layers
- Converting to black and white in Camera Raw
- Making an advanced tonal correction
- Doing more tonal corrections
- Calming down highlights
- Vignetting
- The trestle images
- Handling tricky skies
- Doing a selective black-and-white conversion
- Toning
- Split-toning
- High-key and low-key images
- Diffusion
- Using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 plug-in
- Selecting a printer
- Preparing the image for print
- Configuring the Print dialog
- Evaluating a print
- Goodbye
