I am a product photographer and have been asked to do a B&W portrait of a black and white couple digitally. I am worried about skin tones being too opposing for printing. Is there an easy way in Photoshop to even them out? Is this the right forum for this question?
Dear Hugh, Shoot raw files. Process in adobe raw or what ever else you have. Keep an original in 16 bit. Use channel mixer and b/w to get full range of tones and use layer masks to burn or dodge areas and use layer masked curves layer to brghten or darken. Don't use one colour channel and don't do a straight conversion to greyscale. As long as you using a well calibrated machine then what you see is hwat you get. So if there are stray oposing tones you can bring them in by changing the raw exposure and using curves layers ands brushing in on the layer mask. So when its right on screen it will be right for print, that's as long as you are using adobe 1998 and the printer when converting to cmyk knows what he is doing. Hope that helps Cheers Ian Reynolds =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
