Thanks for the tips Godfrey- much appreciated! Cheers, Ryan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:28 PM Subject: Re: PESO: Mom at 90 > > > It's funny how many digital B&W photographs have this "metal > greyish -" or > > > "silver greyish" apperance! > > > > I noticed the same thing actually, especially with skin tones. > > At first I > > thought it was black and white points which needed adjusting, > > but I couldn't > > seem to duplicate film quality black and white with the ist D. > > You just need to get better with Photoshop. > > > Here were some ist D samples (shot in colour, then greyscaled, > > then black > > and white points adjusted slightly): > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2755874 > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2755852 > > They seem nice, but a little flat on my screen. A Curves layer > and then some light work with masking would spruce them up. > > > Now a potentially silly question- is there a way to apply a > > red or green > > contrast filter to a black and white image in Photoshop, > > Paintshop, or > > ACDSee, and how would I go about it? > > In Photoshop, you can adjust the balance of the channels through > the Channel Mixer and simulate nearly any kind of filtration. On > your RGB image, open an Adjustment Layer with the Channel Mixer > tool. Click the Monochrome button. Leave the Green and Blue > channels at 0, adjust the Red slider ... you're seeing your RGB > image purely from the Red channel, as if there was a variable > density Red filter in front of the lens. Etc. > > Godfrey > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > >
