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Anyone recommend a decent "series" of videos on editing images into (?) black and white please? Sorry if that's the wrong way to put it. Not a technical person.
Depending on your software either move the saturation slider to 0 or more likely click on the black and white button.
Tricky to get even one video out of that?
Anyone recommend a decent "series" of videos on editing images into (?) black and white please? Sorry if that's the wrong way to put it. Not a technical person.
Depending on your software either move the saturation slider to 0 or more likely click on the black and white button.
Tricky to get even one video out of that?
Simply de-saturating an image will make for very sucky mono images.
Mono film is all about tonal control in place of colours, which you can control through the individual colour channels. It's often much easier to use a purpose-made monochrome processing package like Silver Efex or the black and white module of Perfect effects than just to twiddle Lightroom sliders: they usually have presets and starting points that help with a place to work from. There's probably mono presets for Lightrrom too, but LR or DXO doesn't do such a good job with mono images in my hands, even though I'm quite adept with the sliders these days.
Here's a video about mono processing - I've not watched it all the way through, but it does seem focussed on creating better images, rather than just selling their software.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeM1C5pgLNo
I don't know what software you have but take a look at silver effects (photoshop plug in) it's my favorite for B+W.
Lightroom does a fair B+W conversion, I usually tend to add a bit contrast to black and white.Lightroom and I did have the Nix collection until my computer was upgraded. The software is £59 now.
That's a pretty facile reply. There's a lot more to producing an emotionally satisfying mono image than just clicking to remove the colour.Depending on your software either move the saturation slider to 0 or more likely click on the black and white button.
Tricky to get even one video out of that?
But I don't think that anyone needs a plugin like Silver Efex, or that such a plugin really helps.
It does give a really nice result. Yes I can get good results from photoshop, but I prefere the ones from silver effxs. Personal taste.Just to clarify I took the question to be on converting to B&W. PP'ing the consequent image is naturally a lot more tricky.
No offence meant.
Just to clarify I took the question to be on converting to B&W. PP'ing the consequent image is naturally a lot more tricky.
No offence meant.
There are many, many ways of doing it but they all boil down to this:
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...image-for-b-w-conversion.522142/#post-6003226
Presets, Silver Efex and the other plugins do just that and then add a couple of refinements
That's it.
- add a contrast curve
- adjust the local contrast (a bit like the clarity slider)
- effects like vignette, toning & grain
- local dodging & burning
A good reminder that David could sometimes add something very positive to the forum.