Black and White with bw-Layer
Photoshop Lesson by Karsten Franke
(3 votes)
Summary
Another video contribution from our renown expert Karsten Franke, which shows a special technique of the grey scale conversion.
He works with a new tool in Photoshop CS3, which offers a very comfortable alternative to decolourise your photo.
Comments
Well explained
Like always, Mr. Franke's explainations are easy to follow and understand. However, I don't like this Photoshop tool at all. There are too many buttons to adjust and the whole thing quickly becomes a trial-and-error tool with confusing controls and the user gets lost. I think Adobe has trouble with the whole concept of B&W. B&W is not a color image where the colors have been removed. B&W lives from light, shadow and contrast much more than color images. Consequently, good color conversion can only be produced by a combination of adjustment layers controlling the above.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
You speak clearly and easy
You speak clearly and easy understandably. It's an interesting new way to show us how to converte an color image to a black and white image. Firstly you show the ways not to do this...
Christopher Grigat