Snow Waves
Back from vacation. Apart from an awful car trip last Tuesday (300 km in 10 hours!), everything was great.
Side note: Does anyone know of good black-and-white conversion techniques in Photoshop Elements 3? Please leave a comment if you do.
This photo was published on January 2, 2005 with the following tags: Black and White, Landscape, Pentax Optio 330RS.
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You may want to check out Fred Miranda’s software. It’s called BW Workflow. http://www.fredmiranda.com/software/ — Also, there are several links out there which describe ways of working with channels — I use Fred’s software and really like it. I’m NOT sure if it works with Elements…
Andreas on January 3, 2005 (#2)
Bob: Thanks for the plug. Unfortunately Fred’s BW Workflow is not compatible with Elements. It’s time to google…
See if the Xero plugins will work. One of them is a greyscaler, which allows for contrast/lightness adjustment. It’s in set #1, xero : Graphics and Web Design . Nice photo. (would like a gmail invite, too).
Andreas on January 3, 2005 (#4)
Mark: Thanks. Unluckily the Xero plugins work on Windows only and I forgot to write that I have a Mac. For now I’m using either a -100% saturation layer or a gradient map layer.
I like this shot. Those are some very interesting snow formations.
Massimo on January 6, 2005 (#6)
Interesting “snow sculptures”.
I usually convert my photos to B/W using the channel mixer in photoshop (not sure it is also available in PS elements). This way I have more freedom in deciding how much each RGB channel contributes to the final B/W image. Another way that sometimes work is to convert the image from RGB to LAB color space, and then select The “L” (luminosity” layer for the B/W image. The results are usually better than the standard “desaturate” action in photoshop. Again, I am not sure if this is a possibility in PS Elements.