Converting Color Image to Black and White

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS. Converting Color Image to Black and White. Tutorial. 4. Adjust the hue of the image. Double-click on the Layer thumbnail for …

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Adobe Photoshop CS
Converting Color Image to Black and White
Russell Brown
. Adapted from
The Photoshop Show-
Starring Russell Brown
to be published by Adobe
Press and Peachpit Press. Russell Preston Brown is
a Sr. Creative Director at Adobe Systems, Inc. He has
worked with Adobe Photoshop since its introduction,
over 12 years ago.Visit Russell’s Web site at
http://www.russellbrown.com/.
Converting images from color to black and white can be
done in a variety of ways using Adobe
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Photoshop
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CS
tools. However, I have always wanted an easy,
interactive way, to adjust the relationship between the
tonal values when converting the image. This technique
makes it easy to convert, and adjust images, without
making a lot of complex selections. You don’t even have
to get a degree in mathematics! For best results be sure
to use this technique with 16-bit images.
1. Create an adjustment layer.
With the file open you’d like to covert, create a new
adjustment layer by going to Layer > New Adjustment
Layer > Hue/Saturation. At this time, don’t do anything
to the settings, simply click OK. This will create an
adjustment layer without altering or…