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This video is helpful for Photoshop users to understand the process of converting color photos in Black and White without loosing the focus and without making it flat.

This video tell you in detail about creating a black and white module with steps and all the necessary tips. Richard Barley, an expert himself gives you additional vision to observe black and white photos. Even if you are not a Photoshop user, this video will certainly give you knowledge about black and white photos in general. Don’t miss such a great video. The narration is good and idea is great! Go, see for yourself!

Hello again, just Richard Barley, a… I’m just going to give you a quick tip on converting to black and white and using curves. A… first we’ll go Image, Adjustment, Black and white.

You’ll see that everything was red. That’s gone very dark in the background and in fact if you put your picker over the background and click, you’ll see Red is highlighted over here a… that’s just showing you that is the Red so obviously.

Coming down to the flowers, click on them, and they were sort of yellow and I’m showing you that this is yellow, over here. And stems were, that’s got some yellow in it. Move it a bit around and you’ll get it. That was green so we’re working on Red’s, yellows and if I can do it. Ha… this is green, there is yellow in there as well but let me find out.

There you go, that was green. So we can use the sliders in the black and white module and the black and white module has always been there, used to convert black and white, different white in Photoshop but I would go with this because its good place to start and you’ll see you can do most things in here.

So what we’re going to try and do is lighten the reds in the background. You can use this slider one way dark and all lighten. You know its whole lot is going but we can combine this with curves to do exactly what we want. So lets just lighten for now the reds in the background.

So we’ve come out of the black and white module now. A… with the reds we have lighten the background which is we’re need to get. I’ll just zoom in a… on skin tones. You can have a look at this. What I’m always try & get is not a flat image but a… something with a good black and white tonal range. A… still details the dress. You could argue too much detail but we’re going to use curves now to bright it up slightly and get exactly how we want it.

If you remember from the black and white module, steams were over green originally and now converted to black and white. Still think them as green and I’ll tell you why later. They were so Oliver colored flowers, the roses a… they have got yellow element to them. Skin is got red in it, some things to remember. Which is why when we will try to convert the background a… sorry. We’ll be using the sliders in black and white over the whole image.

Reducing lightening red. We’re also lightening the red in the skin. You could argue that this area here is competing with the face and the area that is most important is the face. You want your image to lead you in and end up into the face. So you could argue that this is too dark. So you can just make a general selection again. Selections to go Image, Adjustments, Curves.

Now what I’m going to do is just fine that in that curves. I’m just taking edge off it for now. Here we go. When we don’t want to compete it with the face. We want it to be there. We want texture and but we don’t want it to compete with the main subject. Another thing to remember is this area here, a… you could argue, the brightest area of the image a… You want this to be the brightest area of the image a…

You want these to have texture, these flowers a… this area is a bit dark, could argue. So you just looking at the image and working out what you’re going to do with it really. For me as I say I don’t muck around with too much in Photoshop. It has… This has to be right in the camera photos. I wouldn’t do a lot with this.

What I would do is general selection. May be there Image, Adjustments, Curves. Take a pick of the flowers. May be just brighten it up a touch. You needn’t save that and on this video but I… I advice you to do tweaks in Photoshop. Don’t go too far. I will exaggerate if the video seeks exactly what’s going on but just tweak in really.

General selection down the front, face, Image, Adjustments, Curves. Again same as with it was color which is fined in the… the tonal value is a… and that is not too far off to be on this video. You can move over to curves in this area a… you can give a little tweak, bring it up but it’s not far off a… this is the shadow side of the face.

You’re moving around the face and you can see the highlight changes. You get further and further up and the curve… highlight over here. Major highlight area is here. Right at the top. Shin tone above there. Face is on about the same point. Flowers in the same point. So its… its not far off.

This is a major highlight and you could argue the dress is competing with the face. Let it be in this video. Faces are very important, ha… so I wouldn’t worry about that too much.

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