G'day all While browsing around the web looking for tips on B&W conversion, I came across this Cheat Sheet which allows you to quickly see the effects of various conversion options on a particular image.
http://www.diyphotography.net/black-white-cheatsheet-for-photoshop It looks useful but the instructions are a bit cryptic so this is how I've been using it. Note that it's for Photoshop CS3 (and presumably later). 1. Download the cheat sheet PSD file from the link above. 2. Open the image you want to convert and resize to 2500 pixels wide (not 1500 as indicated on that page) 3. Copy that image to the clipboard and then discard it (obviously don't save it over the top of the original image). 4. Open the cheat sheet PSD and double click the top 'Original' layer icon. This will open a new image window with a large 'X' 5. Paste your image into that window, flatten and then close the window. Select 'Yes' when asked to save - it just saves it to a temp directory and it can be discarded later. 6. Photoshop will now churn through a series of different conversions that you can compare. If you want to, you can open the 'top', mid' and 'bottom' layers and tweak the various settings to check the effect. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
