PS the way to make Black-and-white photos of color photographs

Do your Black-and-white photos look flat, with low contrast and lack of level? In fact, the best monochrome printing method has a little secret: the use of color. Explain this: to get the "real" black-and-white effect, use the channel mixer in Photoshop to adjust the red, green and blue channels, and then mix the tones. This is also the best way to get black and white results from color photographs. Soon your friends will wonder why your black-and-white photos look much prettier than theirs.

Below please open your Photoshop, follow the printing expert Debbie Grossman step-by-Step guidance, test it:

1. Copy the background layer so that you can return it in case of error: Click "Layer--> Copy Layer".

2. Because we're going to mix the red, green and blue channels into a black-and-white photo, check the monochrome channel to see the color picture in the three single channel. In the layer/channel/path window, click on the "Channel", respectively, the red, green and blue three monochrome channel bar, to see the three single channels in the photo-tone situation. We're going to use this as a basis for adjusting the Black-and-white tone of each single channel. Watch the RGB Channel bar later.

3. Point "layer--> adjust--> channel mixer". In the previous step we saw that the texture of the blueberry was the best in the red channel, so keep some of the red channel values as much as possible. Green areas are separated by leaves and blueberries, so the green channel needs some. But the blue channel is very noisy, the picture is very dark, we do not move it first. Go to the monochrome channel and look at the black and white effects. Back to "image--> adjust--> channel mixer", give Red 55%, Green 45%. Point "OK".

4 has turned black and white, but the picture looks a bit dark, now let's increase the brightness and contrast. Use the way you like it or "picture--> adjust--> levels". Move the midtones button to the left to make the middle brighter. Also put the highlight button left a little, so that the highlights are also brighter.

Finally, this is how the photos turn into Black-and-white. It looks good!

The above is PS will color photos of black and white photos of the best way to introduce, hope to help everyone!

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