Black & White Conversion in PS - Best Way?

*noobish suggestion* i dont own photoshop but at school i just change it into 8-bit or whichever one in that list
 
Bethany, These are some examples of two click PhotoShop Black and White adjustments. B&W is such a taste thing no one was is the best it's what you like the look of and speaks to you. All the images including the color original I did a quick Auto Contrast ajustment to. Then applied the one click B&W adjustment. (Sorry about the spelling issues. I just can't spell)

Original Color

Original.jpg


Then Desaturated: image>Adjustments>desaturate

desaterate.jpg


Then Gradient Map: image>adjustments>gradient map>in pulldown choose the black to white option.

Gradientmap.jpg


Then Channel Mixer: image>adjustments>Channel mixer> click the Chrom... box in the lower left hand corner.

Channelmixer.jpg


And lastly the channel mixer and the curves adjustment: same as above then...image>Curves> add points to the line and play.

ChannelandCurves.jpg


I hope this helps I also hope these images show up I've never posted images before.
 
The nice thing about the channel mixer is that you can adjust based on the image. If you have a lot of noise, you can use less blue channel and more green channel. To help with skin blemmishes, you can use a lot of the red channel.
 
I too agree....channel mixer is the best way.
 
I'm working with PS CS2 and using the RAW Convertor built in. is it better to just desaturate using this and play with all the settings? or is it better to turn it to a JPG/TIFF and then using the channel mixer? i currently just desaturate in the RAW convertor rather than use the channel mixer, b/c it saves me a few steps and i can usually still get enough control. what do you guys/gals think?
 
If you are getting the look you like, then stick with it. There are 1000 ways to do things in Photoshop, and the way that works best for you, is the way to go.
 
Channel mixer. You can look at how each color looks in monochrome sepratly and then adjust each one so you get the best of all the different colors...

Don't know if that's the best way to explain it, but that's the jist...
 
Exitspeed said:
Channel mixer. You can look at how each color looks in monochrome sepratly and then adjust each one so you get the best of all the different colors...

Don't know if that's the best way to explain it, but that's the jist...

LOL - thanks... you're like the 5th person to say this...lol. Sorry.. this thread has lived for a longgg time for some reason. :lol:
 
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