Can someone turn this into a BW?

[Kimberly81]

Could someone take this photo and turn it into an amazing black and white for me and let me know what you did to accomplish the end result? I love black and white but can't seem to get this right. Thanks so much in advance.

 

[Cameron Cushman]

Done with photoscape

Gamma Bright brought down to 0.95
Contrast brought up to 61
Saturation brought down -255 (which gave it the black and white look)
And then the black and white button which darkened it a tad

 

[Cameron Cushman]

a little bigger cause i forgot to change the photobucket upload size

 

[tinfish]

I gave it a try. I do not know if this is what you are looking for.

I used the black and white conversion tool in CS3 leaving auto settings.
Boosted the brightness and contrast quite a bit.
Used the shadow/highlight tool to recover some shadows.
slight noise reduction
added a little vignette.

 

[brianne5499]

Ok,

1. Layer>duplicate layer
2. Filter>blur>gaussian blur at 4.0 pixels
3. layer>Layer mask>hide all
4. with a white brush set at 40-50% opacity and 10-15% flow paint on the layer mask any areas you want smooth avoiding any defined edges such as face outline, nostrils, lips. I also smoothed the arms and chest some. I did the same for the grass just to take it out of focus some I did this quickly so it isn't as detailed as I normally would do. (all purely preference)
5. layer>new adjustment layer>curves (adjust until you have it how you want it. I do mine a little brighter than I would color photos.
6. layer>new adjustment layer>black and white


That's it.

 

[Kimberly81]

wow guys these are great! thanks so much for the help!

 

[brianne5499]

Not a Problem. Anytime.

I forgot...I added you a pretty frame to it...just for the heck of it. lol

 

[Nelarius]

Gave it a try. I blended the red and green channels, reduced contrast slightly in the midtones (to reduce the shadows on the face), and then applied an unsharp mask with radius=1 and threshold set to 5.