Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison Thanks for the hint. I'll definitely have a look at that - when CS3 is out (I have given fiddling with slow and buggy betaversions). Didier >If anyone is interested I have been playing around with Photoshop CS3 beta >and converting my color to B&W. I have developed something that I think >works very well and gives a slight grain and sorta a film like feel, I >think. I know there are plug ins one can buy for this...but I am too cheap >to pay 200 bucks on something that I can do myself. LOL >Here is what I have been doing, let me know if it works for you: >First I adjust the image so it looks like I like it in color, all shadows >where I want them, contast like I like it everything. >I then go to FILTER-TEXTURE-GRAIN >I set it to: Intensity 10 >Contrast 62 >Grain type: Regular >I then go to: IMAGE-ADJUSTMENTS-BLACK & WHITE and run that at the default >setting. >Usually this gives me a B&W that I like quite a lot. I developed this >using Canon 5D files, but it seems ok on 1DII files also. If your camera >is lower resolution you will probably need to dial back the grain intensity >some. >I find that doing the grain thing with those settings pretty much cures the >"flat" look that comes from a greyscale conversion, and it seems to really >give nice conversions. I made an action so all I do is hit shift F1 and I >have an image converted. >Here is one shot I did like this: >http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/image/76231441 >Harrison McClary