From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Known to Man

Chapter 4. Defying Reason

Photoshop Conversion Techniques of Mass Image Destruction: The Black and White on Convert to Grayscale, Split Channel Conversion, Lab Conversions, and Lab Equalization

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

—Ansel Adams

The Black and White on Convert to Grayscale

Pablo Picasso said, “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” But there is an exception to that belief, and it is epitomized in the next series of popular and very widely used conversion approaches. They contradict Picasso because even though you are engaging in an act of creativity, the following approaches ...