How To Avoid Over Sharpening

Identifying and developing a sensitivity for the artifacts digital sharpening produces will help you choose a sharpening method and what settings to use during any stage of your sharpening workflow. You can easily see the artifacts digital sharpening produces by overdoing it. Apply a filter...

How To Evaluate All Photoshop Color Adjustment Tools

. The Photoshop Color Adjustment Tool Survey – The Go To, The Exotic, And The Redundant . You can evaluate any color adjustment tool, in any software ­– past, current, or future –based on the control it offers over one or more of the three...

New Features In Photoshop CC 2015

Photoshop CC 2015 was updated Nov 30. What’s new? Here’s a list of updates with links for more detail. Photoshop CC 2015.1 (November 2015 release) Artboard improvements Improvements to Creative Cloud Libraries integration Design Space (Preview) enhancements Oil paint filter Touch workspace and gestures Use 3D models...

Seeing in Black and White

Learning to see in black and white has changed. Prior to the 21st century, black and white photographers developed a heightened sensitivity to intensity and direction of light as well as tonal relationships between highlights and shadows. For the most part, they discounted the appearance...

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Many Ways To Convert Color To Black & White

 There are at many ways to convert an image from color to black and white. Here's a roundup and evaluation of the top seven plus a set of considerations to help you choose the best one for your needs. 1          Desaturate...

How Gray is Gray?

In the vernacular the phrase “black and white” can be used to describe definitive answers, while the use of the phrase “gray areas” often means an area defies easy definition making it difficult to draw hard and fast lines. While there is a general consensus...

Black & White Photography Styles

high key mid key full scale mid key high contrast high contrast low key Most successful artists define a consistent palette for their life’s work, for periods during their careers, or for individual bodies of work. It’s one of the primary things that creates an...

Expanding the Definition of Black & White Photography

neutral image The division between color and black and white in photography has been overemphasized based on the limitations of 20th century processes. 21st century processes are significantly different and beg a reconsideration of this division. Today, when we make black and white images we...

Enhancing Local Contrast In Black & White Images

After Before Color to black and white conversions are radical transformations of an image. They establish the tonal foundations of a neutral image, creating tonal relationships by determining which areas of an image become light and which are dark. While this process can generate some...