BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE WITH COLOR LINES HOW TO

It’s just displaying them as b&w, but your keeping the information in tact. Notice that Photoshop has kept track of colors in the image. Once you’ve clicked this, you should see adjustments for the value of each color (see image). You can access this either by going to the top menu to Image>Adjustments>Black&White or in your side bar click on the adjustments button (as shown in picture) and then click on the b&w icon, which is the black and white box divided diagonally. What you do want to do is use the black & white adjustments. You don’t want that you want to retain as much information in your image as possible. Long story short, you’re actually changing the color profile, which means you will lose pixel information in your colors. This can be good for getting an idea of if your image has good value range. A quick tip, if you squint your eyes while looking at an image, you will see less color and more of the total value.B&W may be a good way to avoid these colors but keep the great shot.

Let’s face it, some colors don’t really work well together. I’ll be doing a post soon on color theory and color relationship, but if you have odd colors or colors that don’t work well together, then it may be a good candidate for being converted to b&w.So if your image has these elements then it may be a good choice for converting into a b&w. Traditional b&w have good contrast and well spread value all across the histogram. What’s your dynamic range like? For the most part ‘flat’ images don’t look very good in b&w. So when I say to judge the image’s value range, I’m talking about if you have deep blacks and bright whites. In photography the term “value” speaks of darks vs lights. Second, you should consider the value range of the image.

You want a good balance)? Like I said, it should be pretty obvious that your outcome needs to be considered, but it was worth saying.

First of all, and somewhat obviously, what is your desired outcome? Is your client specifically asking for b&w images? Are you entering a b&w photo contest? Are you doing a gallery set of b&w (because, generally speaking it doesn’t look too good to have just one or two b&w mixed in with colors.

There are three ideas that come to my mind when I evaluate whether I should convert an image to black & white.

BLACK AND WHITE IMAGE WITH COLOR LINES HOW TO

So in this post I’m going to talk about when to convert an image to black & white and then how to do it in Photoshop without losing quality.

Recently I was asked about the process of converting images to black & white namely when to know the image would be good for it.

Black and white image with color lines