{"id":540,"date":"2011-01-20T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=540"},"modified":"2011-01-20T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:52:39","slug":"metallic-black-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2011\/01\/20\/metallic-black-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallic Black & White"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOnly 11 more days of black and white…ouch! Yes, it really is getting that hard. We had a lovely sunset last night — for the first time in several days — the sun was peeking around the house across the street and the sky was a lovely blue with big fluffy white clouds and I desaturated it into a black and white. But I think the clouds came out pretty well!<\/p>\n

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The other day at Border’s I picked up a copy of Creative Black & White<\/a><\/em> by Harold Davis and I’ve been using some of his techniques for maximizing tonal range in black and whites. My favorite so far is using Duotone color mode. Since I am self-taught and have never used Photoshop in a “print” setting, there are still lots of areas that I have never explored. Duotone, tritone and heck, even CMYK for that matter, are all new territory to me! <\/p>\n

For today’s shot, I first used a black and white adjustment layer to desaturate it and then changed the color mode to grayscale. That gave me a degree of control over the color mix before Photoshop discarded the color data. Once it was a grayscale then I was able to select Duotone. The duotone menu lists several books of Pantone colors. I choose the metallic coated book which gives you incredible metallic colors that survive the conversion back to RGB without losing too much of their sparkle. <\/p>\n

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He also does some interesting things with LAB color before desaturating the image. I used that technique on the branches above but in my opinion it created a lot of noise in the shot and using Topaz Lab’s Denoise created a lot of halos around the branches…I’m not thrilled with that (not to mention that I accidentally uploaded a low-res version to flicker!). All in all, I think I learned a few useful tricks. What are your favorite ways of converting to black and white?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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