Hi rez version at tutorialbucket.googlepages.com A tasty selection of methods for turning a color image into the perfect black and white. Channel mixing, channel copying and more are all here.
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Excellent tutorial.
Great!
thanks for this tutorial, it’s very helpful i’ll definitely try this one later.
the whole reason he made this video is to show an alternative to Desaturate, which will lower the quality of the picture.
Great solutions. Particularly love the last one “channel mixer”. Thanks for sharing…
Desaturating it is very easy indeed, but I appreciate the options given in this tutorial. Very well done!
I would just copy a layer and then desaturate it,
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS!.. I love the channels option.
Thank You !
That was a great vid! Never really thought of using the channel mixer at all.
ARE YOU FOR REAL?
I think you better watch the video again. You have to select all in a channel, then copy, then go back to the layers palette and paste it in before you can save anything.
my problem is that. when i use the channels to make my pic black and white and i save it as a jpeg.i still get a colored pic. is it possible to simply pik the red channel and use what that gives u in a pic
even easier you can do ctrl+shift+U
thank you
Really helpful without waisting any time, thank’s mate!
sorry to bother you sir, but which would you say is the most used method? the best . . . what would you use mainly? thanks for your time.
great! very clear..
nice clean tut. Thanks for the tip on Camastia.
got it thanks
Make sure the layer to be copied is chosen. Then hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E (PC) or Cmnd+Optn+Shift+E (Mac)
how are you making the copy layer and renaming it. I can’t get it to work. ALl I get is a white layer.
Awesome! Very explicit and simple!
tnx:)
Thanks have just downloaded it. It looks like a great program.