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Want your B/W’s to POP? [a Quick and Easy Tutorial]
The following quick tutorial is by Vincent Montalbano – one of our wonderful forum members – originally posted in our forum.
I just learned this and thought I’d share this simple procedure. This will also work on color photos, however, I really like what it does for black and whites. Here you go:
- use whatever process you prefer to convert your image to B/W (but do so while maintaining the color channels)
- open up the channels palette (that’s one of the tabs you’ll see on the top of your History palette)
- hold the control key (on PC’s, Mac may be Alt key??) and click on the RGB selection in the Channels palette. You will see the marching ants show up in your image
- make a new layer (Ctrl J) and click on Overlay (Softlight will also work with a little less intensity)… WOW!
- adjust your slider opacity to taste Flatten layer
Here’s an example:
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Want your B/W’s to POP? [a Quick and Easy Tutorial]
Shots that killed my K20D
I was saving these last few shots for next POTW but I change my mind and post early instead. My dying K20D lives a good 3+ years with me. I shot all these hand-held and most are in f/1.2 and some are …
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Highlights of our trip to Maryland, visiting my new grandson, my daughter and my step-son.
Hi Photographer friends,
This was our first trip to Maryland and we were pleasantly surprised at how beautiful of a state it is. We drove to the country side one day and were astonished of how green it was. We walked in a state park to a secluded water fall. It was just beautiful.
While there, my wife and I decided to drive to Philadelphia, to see some historic sites. WOW! we could have spent several days there. There are so many historic events that took place there, but we finally only had time to visit the Independence Hall, yes…where the declaration of independence was signed. We took the guided tour our guide was fantastic. I’ve learned more about the independence of the United States in one hour than I did in all of my school years. Of course I’m Canadian and we didn’t learned much about the other countries, still!
While in Philadelphia, we had to have a Philly cheese steak sandwich. Yum…good for the taste buds, but not so good for one’s health.
This was a wonderful trip and I just wish that we could all live close to each other, but as it is now, we have children in all corner of the United States. Thanks for the internet, Facebook and Skype.
Thank you for stopping by,
Yvon Bourque
P.S. This week, I will introduce my new line of Stabilizers. I listened to you and I have incorporated your suggestions. The Stabilizers Generation II are easier to adjust, fit on any camera, allow Portrait as well as Landscape photography and is compatible with Arca-Swiss Quick Release system, and other systems as well. It’s all the stabilization you need, without carrying a heavy tripod.
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| Mom and Henry. |
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| It’s a big job, taking care of a new born. Gotta sleep sometimes. |
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| A new delicatecy…Henry Soup. |
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| A picture of us, using the AlettA Stabilizer, and the timer. |
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| Beaytiful water falls…taken with the Pentax K-5, mounted on the AlettA Stabilizer Generation II and set-up on the side of the rocks. |
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| The Maryland country side is beautiful. |
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| I made a friend, but he went away when my grass wasn’t any better than his. |
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| A beaytiful Old Church, like there are many in Maryland. |
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| This is the Independende Hall, the original one, but of course restored some. |
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| A painting of the writing and discussions that led to the declaration of independence. |
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| That’s the same room depicted in the painting above, but it’s the real thing. |
Any tricks for checking focus, k10
Thanks for any help,
Marty
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