The Enthusiast's Guide to Photoshop

53. CONVERTING A PICTURE TO BLACK AND WHITE

CREATING A SUCCESSFUL black-and-white image requires more than just pulling the color out of the picture. You can control how a black-and-white image looks by manipulating the areas of color in the source image.

I’d like to turn my image of the old Ford into a black-and-white image (Figure 53.1). In Figure 53.2, I’ve created a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and moved the Saturation slider all the way over to the left. This method is fine if you want a generic black-and-white image, but more often than not, you can exert a greater amount of control if you do the black-and-white conversions yourself. ...