re: #227 goddamnedfrank

If you have pretty much any version of Photoshop made in the last decade there’s a really good easy to remember method for b&w conversion that gives you decent control over tonal relationships.

First make two hue / saturation adjustment layers.

On the top adjustment layer bring the saturation down to zero.

Play with the hue slider on the bottom adjustment layer. You’ll see the various parts of your black and white conversion change in relation to one another depending on the corresponding color hues in the original image. This essentially duplicates the use of traditional color filters on the camera without having to alter exposure.

The nice thing about this method vs. more sophisticated tools like the channel mixer or selective color layers is that it’s very quick and intuitive, you don’t have to think about the colors, you just stop the slider where you think the best overall image is.