I didnt notice the change in moderators.
I will email him, but I think its best that a number of people do, to demonstrate the level of interest. In fact, I will create a poll.
eric kim wrote:
I thought it would be nice to share our B/W workflows here after being inspired by Alan showing his B/W HDR workflow. I guess I'll get the ball rolling (or continue it):
1. Always shoot in RAW
2. Import photos in Lightroom 2
3. Look at what photos I like, then open it in Photoshop CS3's Raw Processor.
4. Add vignetting, sharpening, toning (if i want to), as well as clarity, contrast,etc.
5. Adjust tones of B/W by turning it to greyscale and adjusting specific color channel levels. (Adjust until it looks good to my eyes).
6. Open in CS3 and further add contrast, adjust shadows/highlights.
7. Sharpen using USM at settings at around 1.5 radius and 60-70%.
8. Export to web by resizing with bicubic sharpening.
9. Re-sharpen by using radius of around .5 and 50-60%
Side note: A method I like to use to make B/W's pop more in Photoshop is the following:
1. Taking an image and making a duplicate layer of it.
2. Then I choose the top level and change it to "Overlay" mode.
3. Go to the shadows/highlights mode and then add shadows to 90-100% with highlights at around 10-20%.
*You can change the opacity of the top layer to decrease contrast. ...Show more →
I've been using a similar flow in ACR. I like being able to fiddle with white balance after converting to gray scale. I do any vignetting, dodging and burning etc. in CS3. I 'll have to try your method for adding pop. I do it little different. With the duplicate layer set blending mode to multiply and apply a high pass filter at 50-250 pixels. Adjust brightness if necessary and adjust opacity.
Thanks for starting this thread. As time goes by, I'll try as much as I can of what's posted here. I add my vote to sticky this thread.
