In Silver Efex Pro you can just play with the contrast & brightness sliders (on whatever preset you are playing with to start with). Running contrast all the way to the top will normally leave you with simple B&W.
Here is a tutorial for doing a Kodalith Effect with Photoshop Elements: http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30973 Otherwise, if you are trying to do it without Photoshop (either Elements or the full version) you might want to try GIMP. Convert image to greyscale and play with brightness and contrast (running contrast to the top should leave you with B&W only... the amount of shadow that goes black will be controlled by the brightness you set first). Gotta believe there is a way to do that in Lightroom, too, but I still haven't gotten into LR to tell you step-by-step. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- 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.
