CREATING BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES IN

PHOTOSHOP

Photoshop CS6 Tutorial

GOOD AND BAD

 Photoshop offers both destructive and non-

destructive techniques to turn your images into

black and White.

DESTRUCTIVE METHODS

 Destructive methods are the ones that can’t be re-adjusted

afterwards.

 Once you have made the conversion, the only way to change it is

to undo the conversion and start over.

NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHOD

 Use Photoshop adjustment layers.

 The changes you make to your own photo are

stored in the layer and the original photo remains

unchanged underneath.

ORIGINAL COLOR IMAGE

ADD THE CHANNEL MIXER TO YOUR LAYER

1.  In your layers palette select the circle that is half white and half black.

2.  Select Channel Mixer from the drop down menu.

Select Monochromatic

By default, Photoshop combined 40% of the Red channel, 40% of

the Green channel and 20% of the Blue

channel to create the initial black and white version of the image.

To increase or decrease the percentage of a

specific color drag the slider to the right or left.

100% RULE

 When editing your channel mixer colors

you want the total to equal 100%. If it goes

over 100% images will begin to look over

exposed.

Over 100%

HISTOGRAM

 It is also good to leave your Histogram open

(Window > Histogram) because if you see spikes on

the right edge of the panel then you know you are

losing image detail.

FINAL IMAGE

PLACE IMAGE IN DROPBOX

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