Lessons
Understanding the Controls
14:48 2Black and White Travel Photographs
05:23 3Processing iPhone Images in Black and White
07:29 4Skin Tones in Black and White
12:11 5Black and White Portrait Retouching Workflow
23:21 6Black and White Batch Workflow
12:24 7Black and White Presets
02:01 8Black and White HDR Toning
04:53Lesson Info
Black and White Presets
So how did johnny look this guy's beard? How awesome is that this guy's great character but he is the best beer in santa barbara where I live what I want to highlight here was kind of a untypical way to do black and whites which is not curved it is using the black and white adjustment panel but going to presets and so often what happens is we jump right to black and white user sliders but there's some really interesting ways that we can do stuff here high contrast read a little bit too high the too bright for the face maybe the shirt needs to go darker you see where I'm going with that great way to start modifying images assed faras a different type of a starting point then you would have normally tried because we get stuck in little ruts presets get us out as do plug ins for that matter. So what this image I mean there's there's a lot I would do with the work flow on it some of it would be retouching and I'm kind of down to the end of my time a little bit so I'm just gonna go quickly ...
I'm using the the healing brush to get rid of some buttons I'm using curves this side needs to be needs to be dark over here and I'm just kind of, you know, going really fast the point of it mohr than what I'm doing, I think, is his beard's too bright download. You see that it's like you want the brightness to be up in the face, so I gotta gotta darken up this stuff here because I'm going so fast and my brush trips or so noticeable use the poor man's welcome town, that to soften my edges, and the image is going in a decent direction. Mohr work. But had I just used let's, just compare you sat and remove color. We wouldn't have the detail in this shirt, so the shirt's, too, right there, or maybe if I had just used the default, black and white, I wouldn't. Maybe I've done his face, but I would have forgotten about this, so sometimes what I've found is that presets lead to pretty interesting results, so just know that.
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I LOVED this and loved Chris as a teacher! I get frustrated when the teachers jump around and don't explain things thoroughly. But Chris is great! Lots of new helpful ways to do things. Very informative and very helpful. I have purchased countless Creative Live classes and he is a new favorite! Thank you Chris!!
Rebecca George
one of my very favorite teachers -- love this class and found it SO helpful. Chris is so great about repeating the important stuff in a way that makes it stick. This class gave me the tools to be able to edit more quickly and efficiently. Totally worth the money.
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