The Art Of Black And White Photography

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The Art Of Black And White Photography

Learn how to create dramatic and compelling black and white images using a range of powerful Photoshop techniques.

Many of the most powerful, memorable and effective photographs are black and white images. With digital photography though you can no longer take a great black and white photograph but you can create one using the black and white photography techniques taught in this course. So if youre confused about which black and white conversion techniques to use, unsure about how to adjust the tonal range and balance of your black and white photos using curves and masks want to make more of your black and white portraits and you want to learn how to tone your black and white images this course is for you. What black and white photography techniques are you going to learn:
– Youre going to learn how to use a range of powerful flexible and non-destructive black and white conversion techniques. Youre will learn which are the most useful and powerful e.g. the Channel Mixer and Black and White tool when to use one technique rather than another and which techniques to avoid (and why).
– You will learn how to evaluate the tonal range and tonal balance of an image and then how to make global and selective changes using adjustment layers selections masks and the Curves tool: four of the most powerful tools and techniques within Photoshop.
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– Youll then learn how to use these tools and techniques to overcome some of the unique problems youll face when converting your portraits to black and white including how to delineate your subject from the background how to work with skin tones to maximise detail or smooth your subjects skin and how to enhance your subjects eyes.
– Youll learn how to add unique and complex tones that will really bring your black and white images to life.
– Youre going to learn how to embed all of these tools and techniques into a flexible powerful and repeatable
workflow.
– But this isnt just a course about post-production and Photoshop: each video will also enable you to develop the skills and give you black and white photography tips you need to create not only technically optimal black and white photographs but ones that are aesthetically striking too.
– When you create a black and white image pressing the shutter is just the start. Sign up for The Art of Black and White Photography and take the next step now. Downloads are ENABLED for this course!
What are the requirements?

Ideally, Photoshop CS3 or above.
If youre using an earlier version of Photoshop (CS2 or below) youll be able to work with most of the tools and techniques covered in this course other than the Black and White tool which was introduced in Photoshop CS3.
No prior knowledge of Photoshop. Youll be learning some powerful and sometimes complex techniques, but well work through each of these step-by-step.

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