The Art of Black and White Photography – David Nightingale

Learn how to create dramatic black & white images using a range of powerful Photoshop techniques.

Many of the most powerful, memorable and effective photographs are black and white images. With digital photography though, you can no longer take a great black and white photograph – unless you’re happy to shoot JPEGs – but you can create one using the black and white photography techniques taught in this course.

So if you’re confused about which black and white conversion techniques to use, unsure about how to adjust the tonal range and balance of your black and white photos using curves and masks, want to make more of your black and white portraits, and you want to learn how to tone your black and white images, this course is for you.

What You’ll Learn In The Art of Black and White Photography

Getting Started

• Promo Video
• Lecture Images

Black and White Conversion Techniques: Part One

• Black and White Conversion Techniques, an Introduction
• The twin Hue/Saturation conversion method

Black and White Conversion Techniques: Advanced Methods

• The Channel Mixer
• The Calculations method
• The Black and White Tool
• The Camera Raw plugin

Enhancing Tonal Range and Contrast

• Enhancing tonal range and contrast, an introduction
• Enhancing tonal range and contrast using the Curves tool
• Masking, Selective adjustments and blending techniques

Black and White Portraiture

• Black and white portraiture, an introduction
• Working with detail and skin tones
• Enhancing your subject’s eyes
• Converting a portrait using Lab Color mode

Toning and Colorizing your Black and White Images

• Toning and colorizing a black and white image
• Advanced toning techniques

Conclusion

• Conclusion

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