Better B&W From Digital
Here's a view of the Loeb Boathouse in New York's Central Park. I took this one last month when Ben & I spent the day in NYC. Taken with my Digital Rebel and it's "kit" lens - 18-55mm zoom. The original was color, but I thought it would look better as a B&W image. Tonight, I tried a technique from Scott Kelby's book "The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers" that seems to produce a significantly better B&W image than just removing the color from the image. I wrote up the instructions in a post on my blog tonight at http://therosenblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/better-bw-from-digital.html Give it a try if you have Photoshop Elements (I know it will work with Version 2 and 3, at least.) It should also work with "regular" Photoshop, but Scott says that Channel Mixer (not included in Elements) is the normal way to go there.
Hope you find it useful.
Regards,
SteveR
posted by SteveR at 10:05 PM
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Hi Steve, this is very useful information. I have a couple of Scott Kelby books too. Great stuff. For the last few years, i've already been using the Photoshop channel mixer technique for converting color to B&W. I'm not sure if anyone else on the forum uses Elements. Maybe they will de-lurk and speak up.
Oh, btw, nice shot! Have I seen it before? It looks familiar.
--Warren
Thanks, Warren - you are right, by the way - I did post this photo (cheap-and-dirty grayscale version) in mid-February with the story of the Road Trip Ben & I took to Drexel & NYC.
-- SteveR
It would have been a good shot for our January Reflections Project. :)
--WT
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