How to edit A Black And White Photo In Photoshop
How to Create Stunning Black & White Images in Photoshop
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today I'm going to show you how to
create beautiful black-and-white images
in Photoshop
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hello and welcome to phlearn my name is
Aaron NACE you can find me on phlearn
comm where we make learning fun and in
today's episode we're going over a very
simple technique for creating black and
white images in Photoshop that's gonna
give you control over your light and
dark levels and don't forget you can
download today's sample image on phlearn
comm just follow the link right down
below we're going to start by going to
layer new adjustment layer and over to
black and white now this black and white
adjustment layer will allow you to
choose the light levels of all the
different colors that first existed in
your photo for instance we have reds in
our subjects skintone as well as our
subjects pants so we can adjust our read
levels and you can see it's gonna affect
the read of our subjects skin and our
subjects pants red and yellow will
primarily be subjects skin tones and
environments will be other colors like
greens cyan and blues in this case we
don't have many of those colors so these
are not doing that much there we go
in this case I can adjust my subjects
pants a little bit lighter using
magentas there we go I think that looks
great next we want to choose our light
in dark levels of our image to do so
we're going to go to layer down to new
adjustment layer and over to levels now
with a levels adjustment layer we have
two different areas that we can adjust
our photo we have our input levels here
on the top and our output levels on the
bottom the input levels display our
histogram which is the light information
and the dark information in our photo so
I can take my black point and move that
from the left to the right to make more
of my image black I can take my white
point and make more of my image white
and I can take my mid point and move
that left or right I can also take my
black point and simply make this a
little bit lighter or I can take my
white point and make it darker now using
a combination of our input channels and
our output channels can result in some
really stunning images for instance if I
take my black levels and bring them up
it's gonna simply make more of my image
black but what I can do is now take that
black point and bring that a little bit
brighter so instead of my image being
just
black we have now some really nice deep
Grey's in my shadow levels leading to a
little bit more of an artistic black and
white and something you might see with
film we're gonna do the same thing with
our white levels bring those up just a
little bit and we're gonna take our
light levels down there we go let's just
make that visible and invisible and you
can see we can now color tone our black
and white we're gonna do this once more
and create a little bit of a vignette
effect back in Photoshop we'll go to
layer new adjustment layer and over to
levels and I'm gonna take my white point
here my output levels and bring that
from the right to the left making our
lights a little bit darker now on my
layer mask I'm going to use my marquee
tool to make a selection around the
center of my image there we go now once
I have my selection active I'm gonna
click on my layer mask and hit ctrl or
command I to invert that that simply
makes this area not visible on this
layer go ahead and deselect by going to
select and down to deselect orbiting
ctrl or command D our next step is to
apply a Gaussian blur because I don't
want to see this edge I want it to blend
together with my photograph so we'll go
to filter down to blur and over to
Gaussian blur and in this case I'm going
to choose right around 600 pixels for my
Gaussian blur you can just type in 600
in this case and hit OK now you can see
we have a slight darkening around the
edges of our photographed while or
center is still light which draws more
attention to our subject let's take a
look at our before and after here's our
image in full color first we convert to
black and white and then we apply levels
to give our finishing touches well
that's all there is to it you can use
these techniques on any one of your
photographs using the light and dark
levels to fit the mood of your image if
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everyone
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