 kelly a. jones |
Program for Black and White Photos What photo software do you recommend that will produce the softer black and white pictures and the black and white pictures that have some color?
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W. |
Hi Kelly, take your pick from a rich list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_raster_graphics_editors Practically all can make your pix B/W, in the gradations of your choice, and many of the better specced ones can bring partial color back into the image.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hello Kelly, I use Adobe Photoshop CS3. It does just about everything and, though a bit pricey, it processes Raw images much better than CS2, and the new Bridge is really useful for many of your photo management needs. You have the ability to change any photo to B&W and use layers with lots of filters to make images do just about anything. There is a technique called Orton and if you combine that with a black & white image, you can get a really soft photo. The opacity controls used with various layer effects give you so many options. You can use saturation to make your images appear more black & white and adjust to have just a little color, but though this may be the easiest way, it is not the best to achieve the desired effect. If you are serious about photo editing, Photoshop is the choice for most photographers. There is other photo editing software out there, and many are cheaper if you have a limited budget. I recently bought Corel Painter X but this is more for turning my photos into paintings, which you can also do with Photoshop but with limited brushes and canvas options. If you look at the classes offered here at BetterPhoto, you will find classes in Photoshop and Adobe Elements.
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Christopher A. Walrath |
This should be posted on a digital thread. Not a film one.
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A C |
strange ... but it was posted in the digital thread. It is actually in both threads.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Film police
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Steven A. Serpa |
Could you explain the technique called: Orton used with Black and White?
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Here, there are many ways to simulate an Orton slide sandwich. You can do it the same way as outlined above for slides overexposing two separate images and then in the computer stacking the images together in software and blending them. Personally, I prefer to take my existing digitized photos (either from film scans or digital camera files) and running them through the process below to see if they work as “Orton Images”. Here is the step-by-step recipe for making Orton images in Photoshop: 1. Open any image you wish to try the technique on. Make a duplicate of the image (Image>Duplicate). Close the original image. There, you now have an Orton image - if you like your new masterpiece save the file!
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