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| June 30th, 2007 04:49 PM | |  andreyG
Joined: Sep 19, 2006
Posts: 390 | B&W layers
A lot of people ask me how to blend B&W layer to the picturee, I checked tutorials and found out, that may be this is a new method, thus it is how I am doing it - open the picture, go layer -duplicate layer press OK on background copy, then you go to image-adjust-gradient map you have a window - click on bigger parallelepiped and you have a table - choose B&W graddation (in authomatic table 3rd from left on the upper raw). and make an adjustment to have a light and contrast picture. OK it. adjust blue and red to have it B&W, may be sharpen it and add contrust. Then you go to layer-layer style-blending options - when you have a table - use sliders on opacity and full opacity controls making them ~50%, flatten the image. It cam be done differently, but this is the simplest way how to do it.
Open the picture and 2 time make a BG copy of the layer, then: layer-layerstile_blending options and make the choice of screen as a blending option, then layer-mergedown,make another BG copy, make it B&W and very light layer_blending options and choose multiply, then use opacity sliders to make it a bit lighter, and pass it through shadows and highlights after flattening the image. Adding B&W layer is really making all the lines to play and make a big difference in portraits and architectural shots. | | | [1] | | | July 1st, 2007 04:57 PM | | LVE
Joined: Aug 1, 2006
Posts: 824 | Thank You Andrey
I am going to try tomorrow. I wil try this and the other solution you sent. My best. | | | [1] | |
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