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jj1987

Joined: 05 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 8:01 pm    Post subject: High Contrast Black and White Reply with quote

1. Start a gradient map adjustment layer with the colors black on the left and white on the right.

2. Use the hue/saturation adjustment layer to bring saturation all the way down.

3. On the channel mixer adjustment layer, check monochrome and move the constant slider to left and the red slider to the right.

Play around with the sliders from there - just make it look good! High contrast black and white made easy!

Examples:

Desaturated only:



With the tutorial above:

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Chillman

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Far out man. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, that is such an improvement, as must read tutorial, nice one jj1987
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Price

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Amazing! I'd never have thought of that in a million years, thanks a lot for sharing it with us.
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Tristan Gray

Joined: 05 Aug 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Although this is very simple it is probably one of the top10 photoshop tutorials I have ever read in terms of relevancy for professionals.
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Dropbear

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Step 2 seems superflous??
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