Technique #41. Convert to Black & White—Version 3

Katrin Eismann showed a technique at Photoshop World in her awesome class “From Color to Black and White and Back Again” that used a Hue/Saturation and a Selective Color adjustment layer to convert a color image to black and white. I thought it was a great concept and adapted it slightly here, using a Hue/Saturation and a Color Balance adjustment layer.

key concepts:

adjustment layers

Here’s the original image I used for this technique.

Step One.
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