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Black and White Conversion: Channel Mixer Recipes

Black and white conversion is a mysterious process. There are many ways to do it and none is objectively any better than any other for every photo. So, these are guidelines, really, in the spirit of a recipe. But unlike following a recipe for baking a cake, we are not [...]

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Black and White with a Splash of Colour – iPod style

One of my most frequently commented on posts is the little tutorial Black and White with a Splash of Colour. Well, I've just discovered a new super easy way of achieving the technique for those of you with an iPod Touch or iPhone. A little, at the moment free, app [...]

Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Digital Black and White Photos

Sometimes a photo just looks better in black and white. You know, from time to time you'll be digitally rifling through a folder of photographs and there'll be one or two that just don't suit being in glorious technicolour. So what to do? Well here are a few tips: 1. Don't [...]

Reviews

Review: The Art of Black and White Photography

First of all, let me get something off my chest. I'm not picking on this book in particular, but generally, when will photography book authors quit talking about digital photography like it's some crazy new thing that people need to be gently introduced to? Why does every photo book have [...]

Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Black and White with a Splash of Colour

One of the techniques people most often ask me to teach them is making a photograph like the one on the right that is black and white with one other colour. There are a few ways to achieve this effect but here is the one I find easiest for Photoshop [...]