Did you learn something new today? If so let us know! Oh... PS! Couple this Black and White Technique with the Linear Light Dodge and Burn I showed a few months ago and BAM! AMAZING! Here is the link to that video: ruclips.net/video/16rx27aR5t4/видео.html
blake, you never cease to amaze me - this is by far/hands down THE absolute best and most versatile B&W method i've ever seen - thank you so much and just in time for a B&W long exposure workshop on oregon coast. stoked! what would be even better is if you could put together a Ps Foundations full course in B&W shooting and processing. robert
Fantastic...That's the most logical approach to B&W editing I've seen. Very well explained, informative and helpful. Will save this link to refer back to. Thanks.
In B&W photography, it’s not uncommon to use different color filters to produce better images depending on the subject. This is the BEST B&W conversion technique I have ever seen in PS. I’ve been using PS since ‘95. Bravo to you.
You have a new subscriber. I like black and white but this method takes it to a new level. Can't wait to try it out. Have always struggled with Photoshop but your teaching methods make it easy to follow. Looking forward to checking out your other videos.
Thank you. I am 70 years old and have been using Photoshop since 1994. I have many techniques and actions I have developed for my use over time. Then you throw something completely new (to me) and much better out there. I cannot afford your membership, but I really appreciate your channel and taking my processing up a notch or 2. Maybe next year when tourism is back, I can join and learn more. I have just been watching your videos old and new to educate myself during the the months of enforced near isolation. Thank you again.
Thanks so much for this great tutorial. I was looking for ways to turn a colour picture into black & white with much more vibrant black versus white and this gives me some excellent tools to do that! THANK YOU!
Tried this out on a recent photo I had converted to B&W recently and the difference is amazing. So much more control over just flipping it to B&W and then trying to make more changes. I've learned so much since starting to watch this channel. I've struggled with coming to understand there are 2 aspects, the taking of the photo, and the processing. To get a better photos you have to understand and learn both aspects and this channel has really helped. Thanks.
Excellent tutorial! I struggle with "seeing" in black and white, but now I can embrace color and make it work for my black and white images. Like magic! Thank you
All I want to say this is really a very nice and unique way to convert color images into black & white Thanks to you for that you tought me how to do it flawlessly
Wow! Is what anyone watching this is saying. We really get into a place where we just do what we know, so to see a technique that's very outside the box and creates better results is just awesome!
Sir I watched this video 4 times I took out one of my very colorful portraits of a friend of mine. It came out beautiful, using the steps in this video. Thank you so much I really appreciate that you offered to show us some of the things that we need to learn in order to have better portrait artwork for our clients!😊
No, I have a subscription website, f64elite.com that provides a ton more content than Patreon can provide 😁 it's also more organized and easier to find everything, much better use experience. Updated monthly. What I do here on YT is a fraction of what I do for my elite Members 😁
You hit it outta the park, Blake! Glad I found this, even I am 3 years late. And the best thing is that this technique works with my ancient Photoshop CS6! Mille grazie!
Fantastic! So much more control than even the B&W adjustment. More about making choices than slider hunting. Thanks for the action and explaining smoothness. Glad I have MyPanel to organize them too.
You have sold me on the confusion being very useful. I am going to work on this to a much deeper extent. Thank you Blake for another spark of realistic inspiration....
I am using a similar technique in Affinity Photo where I use a Curves Adjustment either in the LAB mode or CMYK mode underneath the Black to White gradient adjustment but your technique is much better it covers all the necessary tones one requires for a good BW image. Thanks a lot for the concept.
Great tutorial. I used to use the channel mixer to create black and white images mostly for the same basic reason: Allow the inherent color to have an influence on the tones in the final B&W. This method gives so much more control over the process. Thanks so much.
I agree! The channel mixer is quite unpredictable. The parameters are not governed by the data, you can take the channels very far which sometimes produces artifacts and undesirable results. That's why I like this method.
I've just used the action on an image I took in December of a Crow (or similar) that at the time I converted to B&W and thought it was pretty good - and this technique makes it so much better properly pops despite the image being ostensibly green and black in the first place. Fabulous!
Blake. Thank you for all your videos and educational materials. They are all invalable. Special thanks for this black and white conversion video. I used it on two Manhattan skyline photos taken a few minutes before sunrise. The results are spectacular. I was able to capture the lights in the buildings and the 59th Street Bridge, as well as the pre-sunrise glow in the dark sky. Amazing.
Phenomenal tutorial Maestro! I remember a personal comment you made to me months ago about how color would make a difference in my B&W work. Not 100% convinced at the time. In time I have become a believer. This process elevates the quality manifold. As we say in my part of the world : Muchas Gracias!
Wow... I had to reach out to thank you Blake for sharing such an amazing process, this has made so much difference to my pictures that I've recently chosen for an Art project. I was less than enthused by my prior attempts and being fairly new to Photoshop anyway, I wasn't really getting the best out of the possibilities it offers. But the way in which you explain this process, I followed along with ease and was astounded by the result.... you could say the difference was black & white! Sorry, couldn't resist, I know... it's bad! Thank you so much once again for all your insights.
I know this is two years old, but I just caught up to it. Brilliant!!! As an old film B&W photographer from way back, I was aware of the importance of color, which you could modify through use of filters - the old Wratten red filter making blue skies near black in B&W. I’ve long used the filters in Silver Efex, but with nowhere near the amazing options available in your system. Anxious to go back and reprocess some previously converted images that never sang like this process allows. Well done!
Another amazing tutorial, I have a process written in my how to photoshop note book, on black and white. And it is such a long process, I barely use it. Your process makes more sense, I wish I knew half of all this information in your head. Thanks for all your videos. 😊
I just wanted to say thanks this has been one of the most amazing videos i've seen on black and white editing... no it was the best!!! And teach and make thing so easy to understand you're great guy giving all this and giving it out freely, thanks a million!!!
Wow what a great video, I love black and white images. I will give this a try, I am not great on Photoshop but your steps look easy to follow, thanks for your time and expertise. Thanks from Scotland.
Thanks for the great tutorial on Black and White conversions, I always felt same way as you for the time to process the conversion to black and white after working with the color. I never had these controls to use and used other ways to get my end result. But your way is extraordinary. Thanks Pat
Blake, this is amazing! I’ve watched enough of your videos to know the importance of color in black & white, but never felt like I was quite getting it. My images weren’t bad, but I knew they could be better. Can’t wait to try this out.
Excellent tutorial again Blake, you've changed my perception of black & white imaging from simple bass and treble, to 100 band graphic equaliser, I'll download the action soon, but I'll also have fun manually manipulating colours within black and white photos, cheers, happy new year too!
Did you learn something new today? If so let us know!
Oh... PS! Couple this Black and White Technique with the Linear Light Dodge and Burn I showed a few months ago and BAM! AMAZING!
Here is the link to that video: ruclips.net/video/16rx27aR5t4/видео.html
I learnt that Lightroom is much better for editing than Photoshop what a convoluted mess!.
Terrific video. I'm sold. But I wonder if this is possible to do this in Affinity Photo?
Thank you learned a lot ^_^
blake, you never cease to amaze me - this is by far/hands down THE absolute best and most versatile B&W method i've ever seen - thank you so much and just in time for a B&W long exposure workshop on oregon coast. stoked! what would be even better is if you could put together a Ps Foundations full course in B&W shooting and processing. robert
@@robertmills2079 wow! Thanks so much! That means a lot to me. 😎 So glad you like it!
Fantastic...That's the most logical approach to B&W editing I've seen. Very well explained, informative and helpful. Will save this link to refer back to. Thanks.
In B&W photography, it’s not uncommon to use different color filters to produce better images depending on the subject. This is the BEST B&W conversion technique I have ever seen in PS. I’ve been using PS since ‘95. Bravo to you.
Oh wow! Thank you! I am honored to hear that.
You have a new subscriber. I like black and white but this method takes it to a new level. Can't wait to try it out.
Have always struggled with Photoshop but your teaching methods make it easy to follow. Looking forward to checking out your other videos.
Thank you. I am 70 years old and have been using Photoshop since 1994. I have many techniques and actions I have developed for my use over time. Then you throw something completely new (to me) and much better out there. I cannot afford your membership, but I really appreciate your channel and taking my processing up a notch or 2. Maybe next year when tourism is back, I can join and learn more. I have just been watching your videos old and new to educate myself during the the months of enforced near isolation. Thank you again.
It means a lot to me. Thank you for the feedback!
Blake... man this is the BEST process for converting color images to black and white I have ever seen!!. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 💯
Oh wow! Thanks so much!
Thanks so much for this great tutorial. I was looking for ways to turn a colour picture into black & white with much more vibrant black versus white and this gives me some excellent tools to do that! THANK YOU!
Tried this out on a recent photo I had converted to B&W recently and the difference is amazing. So much more control over just flipping it to B&W and then trying to make more changes. I've learned so much since starting to watch this channel. I've struggled with coming to understand there are 2 aspects, the taking of the photo, and the processing. To get a better photos you have to understand and learn both aspects and this channel has really helped. Thanks.
Awesome, Phil! That is great to hear. I'm very excited for your success.
First time i have ever downloaded any type of ACTIONS . But was so impressed by the amount of tone adjustment given in this tutorial . Excellent
Awesome! Thank you so much for your support of my work 😎 I really appreciate it! Enjoy the action!
Excellent tutorial! I struggle with "seeing" in black and white, but now I can embrace color and make it work for my black and white images. Like magic! Thank you
Perfect! Seeing tones at first is very hard. But with practice and understanding of color, it's a breeze!
All I want to say this is really a very nice and unique way to convert color images into black & white Thanks to you for that you tought me how to do it flawlessly
Glad I could help :)
Wow! Is what anyone watching this is saying. We really get into a place where we just do what we know, so to see a technique that's very outside the box and creates better results is just awesome!
Woot! That's awesome to hear! Thank you!
I've been in photoshop for decades (since v2.0), am a professional retoucher, and yet you always teach me something new!!! Thanks Blake, you da man!
Yes!!!!! Love it!
I have absolutely learned something today. I’ve been doing this for a long time so that is really saying something. Thank you.
Wonderful! Glad you found it useful!
Sir I watched this video 4 times I took out one of my very colorful portraits of a friend of mine. It came out beautiful, using the steps in this video. Thank you so much I really appreciate that you offered to show us some of the things that we need to learn in order to have better portrait artwork for our clients!😊
Awesome! That just made my day! Glad it worked out so well. You must have paid attention 😁
Wow! I'll definitely be doing this, Blake.
My man, you are giving away massive amounts of knowledge. I am very grateful
My pleasure! It really is, I love my job and the reward is seeing other artists grow!
@@f64Academy do you have a patreon?
No, I have a subscription website, f64elite.com that provides a ton more content than Patreon can provide 😁 it's also more organized and easier to find everything, much better use experience. Updated monthly. What I do here on YT is a fraction of what I do for my elite Members 😁
For me...a real mind changer, always to the point and i like the way you teach. Thanks for explaining it all in so much details, phenomenal, Blake!
Thanks so much! I do love what I do!
This is one of the game changing techniques for crafting beautiful B&W images, thankyou!!
My sincere pleasure, thanks for your feedback.
That's amazing. I've been using B&W layer + curves for most of the time, but this is way cooler
I love these deep dives. They are always a stretch and always useful. Thanks
Thanks! I had a lot of fun with this one for sure.
You hit it outta the park, Blake! Glad I found this, even I am 3 years late. And the best thing is that this technique works with my ancient Photoshop CS6! Mille grazie!
For sure! All the best techniques are completed with foundation tools 😉
Fantastic! So much more control than even the B&W adjustment. More about making choices than slider hunting. Thanks for the action and explaining smoothness. Glad I have MyPanel to organize them too.
For real! MyPanel to the rescue :)
You have sold me on the confusion being very useful. I am going to work on this to a much deeper extent. Thank you Blake for another spark of realistic inspiration....
😁 glad I could help
Superb tips mate. Just tried it yesterday after watching this video and I'm blown away at how much control I get and the results look impossibly good.
Blake is the BOSS !!! this is the best B&W Processing method I have ever learnt !!! Thx a lot
😁 that's awesome to hear!
Wow!Amazing best black and white tutorial that i ever watched.Thank you very much for sharing your God given talent.
The ultimate eye-opener! Thank you so much, I'm so eager to try it as soon as possible.
😁 I love it!
I do like your technique to create a b and white image. Thaank you for sharing.
Thanks!
the most helpful video i've seen about proper B&W conversion by far. thank you so much! :)
Wow, thanks! It is my sincere pleasure ;)
I am using a similar technique in Affinity Photo where I use a Curves Adjustment either in the LAB mode or CMYK mode underneath the Black to White gradient adjustment but your technique is much better it covers all the necessary tones one requires for a good BW image. Thanks a lot for the concept.
Thank you for this tutorial as I am in the process of BW for an open shoot.
Great tutorial for black and white photography.
Very helpful!
Great tutorial. I used to use the channel mixer to create black and white images mostly for the same basic reason: Allow the inherent color to have an influence on the tones in the final B&W. This method gives so much more control over the process. Thanks so much.
I agree! The channel mixer is quite unpredictable. The parameters are not governed by the data, you can take the channels very far which sometimes produces artifacts and undesirable results. That's why I like this method.
Fabulous method. Thank you
My pleasure!
I've just used the action on an image I took in December of a Crow (or similar) that at the time I converted to B&W and thought it was pretty good - and this technique makes it so much better properly pops despite the image being ostensibly green and black in the first place. Fabulous!
Awesome! Glad to hear it!
Excellent lesson about black and white photography
Awesome and powerful, great tool! Thanks for this Blake!
My pleasure, Yves!
Blake. Thank you for all your videos and educational materials. They are all invalable. Special thanks for this black and white conversion video. I used it on two Manhattan skyline photos taken a few minutes before sunrise. The results are spectacular. I was able to capture the lights in the buildings and the 59th Street Bridge, as well as the pre-sunrise glow in the dark sky. Amazing.
Wow that should incredible! So glad I could help!
Phenomenal tutorial Maestro! I remember a personal comment you made to me months ago about how color would make a difference in my B&W work. Not 100% convinced at the time. In time I have become a believer. This process elevates the quality manifold.
As we say in my part of the world : Muchas Gracias!
De nada! My pleasure, really!
Wow, I randomly stumbled across thos video and it's a total game changer for how i make my BnW images.
Glad you found me ;)
Again an other great video, thank you!
Thank you for your interest in my work you should subscribe 😁😁😁
Looks very promising ! I will for play with it :) Many thanks and... Happy New Year !
As always Blake very impressive........... you just cant go wrong watching how you explain everything with out all the fluff keep up the Magic work
Thank you, Blake, for this video. I'm new to Photoshop, and I see there's more to learn than I could have ever imagined.
My sincere pleasure! Hang out here for a while, I got ya covered 😁
Very nice and comprehensive Blake. Thank you! And best wishes for 2021.
Thank you! Same to you!
I love this. And I love your lessons, Blake.
Thanks 😁
Thanks Blake for a fantastic B&W video and for the actions. I am excited to begin using this technique on my own images.
Glad you like it! The pleasure is all mine!
OMG This is pure EDUCATION..thank you sooo much.
Thanks 😎 I love what I do!
That was a fantastic tutorial. Thanks a lot for sharing!
I can probably pretty much throw out all that I *thought* I knew about processing b & w right now. Thanks for the awesome action set, too.
Wow Blake. This is awesome and inspiring. Thank you so much.
My pleasure 😁
Wow... I had to reach out to thank you Blake for sharing such an amazing process, this has made so much difference to my pictures that I've recently chosen for an Art project. I was less than enthused by my prior attempts and being fairly new to Photoshop anyway, I wasn't really getting the best out of the possibilities it offers. But the way in which you explain this process, I followed along with ease and was astounded by the result.... you could say the difference was black & white! Sorry, couldn't resist, I know... it's bad! Thank you so much once again for all your insights.
Excellent video. You opened my eyes to new way to edit BW images. Thank u
Awesome! So glad!
Wow! Thanks for this very cool technique!
Sure thing
I think I need six-million dollar man eyes so I can see the colors as deep as Blake sees them!
Ha! You can train yourself to see them 😁 practice! That's all 😁
Excellent! Definitely learned a thing or two, Blake. Really appreciate it!
Awesome! I appreciate you for visiting my channel.
Am glad I found this video
I loved this Blake, thank you :-)
So glad to hear it!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure!
as always, so useful and clear; best photoshop education channel out there. Thanks for the actions, as always!
Much appreciated!
I know this is two years old, but I just caught up to it. Brilliant!!! As an old film B&W photographer from way back, I was aware of the importance of color, which you could modify through use of filters - the old Wratten red filter making blue skies near black in B&W. I’ve long used the filters in Silver Efex, but with nowhere near the amazing options available in your system. Anxious to go back and reprocess some previously converted images that never sang like this process allows. Well done!
Well done, as always Blake.
I appreciate that
Thank you for the action down load, amazing that technology allows you to help us this way. Saves me from having to write it all down. :)
Any time! Sure is awesome, huh?
I cant wait to try this when I get home this evening. Thanks!
Thanks for this. Makes a lot of sense.
Sure thing!
Fantastic! Well done!
Another amazing tutorial, I have a process written in my how to photoshop note book, on black and white. And it is such a long process, I barely use it. Your process makes more sense, I wish I knew half of all this information in your head. Thanks for all your videos. 😊
That's awesome! There is always room for improvement!
Fantastic!
Thanks!
I have paid for B/W actions that pale in comparison to your action. I have been converting images to b/w all morning. Thank you!!
That's what I love to hear 😁
This is very cool Blake, and thanks for explaining it all in so much detail.
My pleasure, really!
I just wanted to say thanks this has been one of the most amazing videos i've seen on black and white editing... no it was the best!!!
And teach and make thing so easy to understand you're great guy giving all this and giving it out freely, thanks a million!!!
Game changer. Thanks 👊
Boom thanks!
Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing.
Okay, I tried it Blake and wow! What a difference. I tried it on a color photo I had converted to B&W and then compared the two. Thank you again 😃
Sweet!
Great tutorial! Thank you
Sure thing!
Always looking for better ways to tone B&W. This looks like a very comprehensive method. I'll sure give it a try.
Excellent!
Many thanks!
I JUST started using Capture One, and it's so amazing for B&W color grading. By far the easiest to play around with vs Lr and PS
It might be easy, but does it produce results with this level of control? That's the real question.
very help full thank you so much, it makes so much sense what you are saying!
I'm so glad!
Wow what a great video, I love black and white images. I will give this a try, I am not great on Photoshop but your steps look easy to follow, thanks for your time and expertise. Thanks from Scotland.
For sure! Easily when you know what is going on :)
EXCELLENT explaining!
excellent tutorial
Thanks 😁
Thanks for the great tutorial on Black and White conversions, I always felt same way as you for the time to process the conversion to black and white after working with the color. I never had these controls to use and used other ways to get my end result. But your way is extraordinary. Thanks Pat
Thanks for the demo and the actions. Excellent advice.
You bet!
This video is amazing!
Thanks 😁
Amazing Workflow! Great Job man!
Thanks so much! Glad you like it 😁
This is a great way for processing black & white photos. Thanks! As an f64 elite member i recognize the steps 👌
GENIUS! Tnx my new guru!
Thanks so much! 😁
I absolutely adore this tutorial. Thank you.
So glad!
This was a fantastic video with tons of practical info I can use immediately. Thank you for posting!
Great, Thank You
Hi Blake, this is eye popping and mind opening! My first ever RUclips comment goes to you! Thank you very much! You now have a loyal follower!
Yes! I'll take that award 😁
Blake, this is amazing! I’ve watched enough of your videos to know the importance of color in black & white, but never felt like I was quite getting it. My images weren’t bad, but I knew they could be better. Can’t wait to try this out.
Awesome! It's a great technique, you'll love it.
Excellent tutorial again Blake, you've changed my perception of black & white imaging from simple bass and treble, to 100 band graphic equaliser, I'll download the action soon, but I'll also have fun manually manipulating colours within black and white photos, cheers, happy new year too!
Awesome! Great analogy!
This is fantastic. It was just what I was looking for. Thank You!
Glad it was helpful!
Great Tutorial Blake ! Thanks for the actions in Ps . Wish you all the best for 2021.
My sincere pleasure!
I love creating B&W images and I will definitely give this a try. Thank you 😊
Sure thing, glad I could help!
Thanks Blake! Fantastic tutorial.
😁 thank you!
This is one of the coolest techniques you've shared. sweet!
Thanks so much!