Black and White

[pardo]

Hello everyone, Yesterday a went to my very first camera club meeting and was amazed at the photos I saw.....The theme for the night was Black and White prints, they were unreal. My question to all of you is what is the best way to convert a color picture to a black and white.

[pardo]

If any of you have any color pictures that you have converted i would love to see them.

[kayser]

Hi- this just came up the other day, and Grant posted a tutorial.

See this thread:

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4964&highlight=black+white

Good luck!

[Carbone]

I really like the Hue & Saturation adjustment layer method. It's probably my favourite.

Ray

[CarolLHB]

Hi Pardo-I like to try channels first-seems to result in crisper images for me. I use Hue/Sat if I'm planning to backscreen generally.:)

You'll find lots of different answers to this one!

[Stringbean]

Wow this is great. Yesterday I asked about using layers to blend a couple of pictures and it turned out fine. One picture was very old and the background was one that I had changed to black and white. The problem was that the old picture was more of a brown and faded colour. Well I used the Remove Colour mode as suggested in Grants tutorial and it worked great. Thank you very much !! :) :)

[MikeH]

While I was away this week I came across a tutorial on black and white conversion that provides a workaround to the Channel Mixer... I'll dig it out and post tomorrow...

Mike

[Wendy]

Hi Mike ...

That sounds interesting ...

Wendy

[MikeH]

I posted it in a new thread here... http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5267

Mike