Converting to
Black and White
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uring the film era, when you wanted to make black and white prints, you bought black and white film. Converting color negatives or color transparencies to black and white was possible, but the results were never as good as starting with the correct film. The biggest problem was -- and to be honest still is -- contrast.
whites and lacking rich blacks. They seem lifeless. To give them visual impact and imbue them with the kind of tones masters in black and white like Ansel Adams, Bruce Barnbaum, and John Sexton were able to create, you have to use tools in Photoshop.
Whenever you convert color to black and white, with film or digital, contrast is lost. The resulting images are flat, devoid of bright
There are three ways in Photoshop to convert color to black and white. There are stand alone software programs that will also do the
Making the conversion
