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Converting color to black and white

The most important tip here is to always shoot in color.

Wherever possible you are far better off capturing a scene in full color and using Camera Raw or Photoshop to carry out the color to mono conversion. Having said that, you do need to use the most appropriate conversion method to get the best black and white photographs from your color files.

Dumb black and white conversions

When you change a color image from RGB to Grayscale mode in Photoshop, the tonal values ...

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