Thursday, May 24, 2012

Friday Yay! {B&W Conversion in PSE10}

Last night I tried out a b&w conversion on a picture of a my friend's little girl, Abbie.  She's a sweety, love her big brown eyes to pieces!  She's the baby of the family and so so precious.  I have always wanted to do a B&W conversion without using any actions, because I can't ever seem to get what I want when I do it through actions.  Anyhoo, I saw this tutorial over at Ashley Sisk's blog and although I'm a little late on it, I thought I'd try it out.  Late... seems to be the theme of my blog ;0).   

SOOC:
SOOC

After the B&W conversion:
After b&w conversion
Happily Mother After
I really like how it turned out! Check out Ashley's blog to see her tutorial and a link to the original tutorial!   It was really quite simple and I really like how it turned out.  The original tutorial was done in LR, but I did mine in PSE10.

I opened up my SOOC shot and chose "Enhance"
Then clicked on Convert to B&W in the drop down box
I hit "Ok" in the popup box - now my photo is gray
Then I went to the layers tab and created a "new adjustment layer" for  "brightness and contrast"
I then adjusted the brightness so that the whites were very white and the contrast so that the blacks were darker.
That's it.  Very simple.


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Happily Mother After the long road 



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9 comments:

  1. OMMMMMMGoodness. LOVE the conversion! Really looks perfect. I didn't used to LOVE b&w's as much as I do now, but I'm kinda in love w/ em lately. I feel that you sometimes "see" so much more emotion & the "little things" w/ out the color.

    Fab job pretty lady!

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  2. First of all, what a cutie!!!! And this is such a great shot! You did a fantastic job converting it; well done my friend :o)

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  3. Oh me oh my! Such cuteness. Loving the shots, oh those eyes! Nicely done.

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  4. I especially love this in BW - makes her eyes sparkle.

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  5. How funny- I was going to say what Ashley said. Really makes her eyes pop! Well done.

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  6. Black and White pics are my favorite! I love the B&W conversion of your little cutie. It seems to bring out the depth in her eyes.

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  7. This little Missy is just adorable and I love the way you captured her in the B&W edit. It's just perfect! I'm featuring this photo at this week's Oh Snap!shots of the Week party as my favorite!! :)

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  8. WAHOOOOO! OHHH SNAP! Just had to come back & say congrats mama! See how crazy awesome you are?!

    REALLLY hope you'll link up one of your fav shots w/ us for FAF tomorrow) xo

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