Color Images to Black and White

Use the ideas of contrast to convert color to black and white

An important part of black-and-white photography is being able to translate color to black and white. Of course, by now, you should not expect me to talk about removing color. Changing a color image to black and white is all about translation. Colors can be translated into many different shades of gray and a very important part of processing color into black and white is to consider how colors do that. You will learn that in this chapter. There is general information about how to look at colors as they change to shades of gray first, then some specifics for Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop products from Adobe as well as Nik Software Silver Efex Pro. ...

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