Black & White isn’t quite Black and White
So yesterday afternoon I was out taking some pictures in Paris, having been inspired by a number of interesting groups on flicker (among other this and this). I prefer Googles PicasaWeb for my own pictures, but fickers groups are cool if you are looking for a specific style of pictures (let me know when someone digs this feature out of picasa).
So here is one I quite like:
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Anyway, I decided to try to spiff some of the pictures up, by converting them to blank and white. It tuns out that the default B&W magic in iPhoto was a bit disappointing, so I decided to try and give photoshop a spin.
Not being an expert in photoshop, googleing for tricks, made things all the more frustrating, since creating black & white versions of ones photos in photoshop seems to be a jungle.
Long story short, I found this place where the author, provides handy cheatsheet for trying out the best way of converting the photo at hand.
So here are the versions I prefer:
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Now if you read the comments on the page I linked to there are several alternatives listed, so this is by no means the end of the story. Hmm..