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.

Publiée le 2 janvier 2005.

Tags : Noir et blanc, Paysage, Pentax Optio 330RS.

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bob le 3 janvier 2005 #1

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 le 3 janvier 2005 #2

Bob: Thanks for the plug. Unfortunately Fred’s BW Workflow is not compatible with Elements. It’s time to google…

Mark le 3 janvier 2005 #3

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 le 3 janvier 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.

cliff le 5 janvier 2005 #5

I like this shot. Those are some very interesting snow formations.

Massimo le 6 janvier 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.

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