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Black and White (B&W)

Created and Compiled by Kent Christiansen

You can find Kent or ask questions and learn more at DPReview’s Retouch Forum

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B&W conversion

Good Summary of basic methods of B&W with actions

http://www.dynamicartwork.com/articles/digital_bw

http://photoworkshop.com/registered/softwarecinema/kost_advanced/index2.html

color to b&w movie – good instructs on channel mixer. ^

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1031&message=17471082

Petteri on B&W (updated link)

http://www.prime-junta.net/pont/How_to/n_Digital_BW/n_Digital_BW/a_Digital_Black_and_White.html

Good B&W tut

http://www.peimag.com/pdf/pei03/pei0102_03/darlowpei0102_03.pdf

B&W Russell Brown movies

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Dr. Brown's RAW Photo Styler – how to do B&W in RAW

Photo Toner Technique with action

Seeing in Black & White – two hue/sat layer method w/pdf

Film Grain with action

Digidaan action based on Russell Brown’s method

http://www.digidaan.nl/indexframedigidaan.html?channelmixer/index.html

Kent’s B&W Selective Color action

Also based on R. Brown’s method

http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=7836867

Explanation of the action – see other posts in thread too.

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=58645#post58645

NAPP Matt K movie

http://www.photoshopuser.com/how/index.html

First Last based on Kelby’s conversion

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=13730883

B&W actions :

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5647428

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5645196

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5652141

Bill M’s B&W method for contrast

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=9546286

and subsequent posts

Mitch’s split channel

http://www.thelightsright.com/DigitalDarkroom/Tutorials/Split%20Your%20Channels.pdf

B&W links

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=7255916

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=7266832

film ploy

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=16742675

Great B&W pic with notes

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=7325830

VG’s B&W action notes

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5725338

Contrast adjustment

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=16808206

Toning

Johny’s tones:

http://www.jakerlund.net/index.php

Free registration required (worth it, imo) ^

Johny’s warming tones in B&W tutorial

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=6306859

Thomas Niemann tones

http://www.epaperpress.com/psphoto/index.html

(B&W in left frame)

Luminosity Masks and Sepia Toning

http://www.retouchpro.com/tutorials/lum-mask-sepia.html

Toning with Curves

http://www.butzi.net/articles/toning.htm

Duotone tut

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/duotone.shtml

Grain

Film grain in PS

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

See: Film Grain ADVANCED! Action available

http://videonews.web.tstu.ru/fio/?N=D

Petteri tut and grain image

http://194.100.88.243/petteri/pont/How_to/n_Digital_BW/a_Digital_Black_and_White.html?page=5

http://byscuits.com/grain-tm400.png ;

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1018&message=12041568

http://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=30071

http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=10075&back=http://share.studio.adobe.com%2FaxBrowseSubmit.asp%3Fc%3D44

action

http://www.jeremydaalder.com/singleArticle.php?articleID=4

http://studio.adobe.com/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100269&xml=phs8kbfilmgrain

Julio

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=10136097

Film Types

Film values

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=8799304

kodachrome action

http://homepage.mac.com/pbize1/Scripts/PSAK200.html

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/PhotoshopTools/TLRB&WConversion.htm

http://www.jeremydaalder.com/singleArticle.php?articleID=4

bleach bypass plugin free

http://www.redpawmedia.com/bleachbypass.html

http://www.digitalmediadesigner.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=28853

IR shooting with Hoya

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1034&message=8722682

Ancel Adams links

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5896353

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5897185

Daniella’s IR workflow

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1024&message=5004274

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5363070

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1024&message=5053028

IR workflow

http://www.rideau-info.com/canal/images/ir/img-ir-examples.html

Swap channels action for IR

http://www.outdooreyes.com/photo54.php3

Digital Lith

http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/lith/digital_lith/digital_lith.html

Lith Effect

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=4785452

Digital Lith

http://www.photocollege.co.uk/frame1/frameset3.html

http://www.marcjutras.com/epseudolith.html

Sabattier/solarization effect

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10682902

fix

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10685158

Orthochromatic effect

http://www.fotofects.com/tutorials/photoshop/photographic_effects/orthochromatic/

Xray

http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=11057&back=http%3A%2F%2Fshare%2Estudio%2Eadobe%2Ecom%2FaxLGSubmit%2Easp%3Fr%3D0%26p%3D2%26pgsel1%3D2

Selective coloring in B&W

Selective coloring of B&W image

http://www.skeller.ch/ps/color_spots.php

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/selective-coloring.html

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=12537326

http://www.picsgalore.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Pages/Tutorial/tutorial.htm

Colorization Tip - video

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/tt/color-tip.html

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/hand-tinting.html

http://www.shuttertalk.com/articles/handcolouring/index.php

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=13058571

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=13253307

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=16014687

http://www.spartanphotocenter.com/Marshall.htm

http://www.spartanphotocenter.com/images/marshalls/colorchart2.JPG

misc.B&W

Rohner thread

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=5492875

Nightman’s tree enhance

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=9692302