Digital to B & W (Page 3): Good intel. Thanks!

bylinecl

Good intel. Thanks!

bylinecl

Good intel. Thanks!

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

Mcwey wrote:

I did only B & W photography for over 50 years (along with a few color slides).
Over the past few years I have moved into Digital but still love the B & W look.
Wondering what programs those of you who convert color use that "Works"?
Just looking for suggestions.
Thanks
Monty

The still free, but Google-unsupported NIK Silver Efex Pro is my go to for B&W, so long as it still works. As you may know, it's abandonware, but it does a helluva good job.

https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

William Royer Loc: Kansas

It does seem like a new B&W conversion technique or App comes out every week. I've tried many but not all. Of the ones I've used, Nik's Silver Efex is really the 'Gold Standard'. I typically don't love the pre-set film-look results. But, I do like the tools on Silver Efex to use on modifying whichever pre-set I use as a starting point. The tools seeing most use are its "texture" tool, the ability to select and modify a certain area without doing global adjustments, the ability to apply certain B&W filters (yellow, red, etc.) with varying intensities, and the tool showing on your image which areas are in different "Zones". I think you can download a free trial version if u want to try it.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Mcwey wrote:

I did only B & W photography for over 50 years (along with a few color slides).
Over the past few years I have moved into Digital but still love the B & W look.
Wondering what programs those of you who convert color use that "Works"?
Just looking for suggestions.
Thanks
Monty

There are many opinions on this - most solutions on line and in magazines seem quite complicated to me !

I use Elements - I do know a little bit about what I am doing (50 years worth) - I have no complaints about what I can do in Elements !

Camera buyer Loc: Las Vegas

Try Tonality a great program for converting color files to B&W. You have many choices in the degree of change including Sepia.

johnbee418 Loc: Manchester Conn.

Picasa

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

mackphotos wrote:

What about doing B/W in camera?

The only problem with that is that It limits you to jpeg output. If you shoot raw, it's better to do your conversion in post. You will have much more control.

Camera buyer Loc: Las Vegas

Tonality gives you the option of saving as most formats including Tiff and Photoshop. Instead of going to "Save", go to Export.

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

Mcwey wrote:

I did only B & W photography for over 50 years (along with a few color slides).
Over the past few years I have moved into Digital but still love the B & W look.
Wondering what programs those of you who convert color use that "Works"?
Just looking for suggestions.
Thanks
Monty

3 exposure JPEG HDR in camera ( 5EV), convert to infra-red in Elements 9, tweak.

Sony A77II and Rokinon 16mm f2 from monopod, f5.6

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Photocraig

Mcwey wrote:

I did only B & W photography for over 50 years (along with a few color slides).
Over the past few years I have moved into Digital but still love the B & W look.
Wondering what programs those of you who convert color use that "Works"?
Just looking for suggestions.
Thanks
Monty

Nik Silver downloadable for my FAVORITE price (free) fro Google.

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

I just use Photoshop Elements to remove the color than check histogram to increase contrast and tweak.

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

Nik and Topaz

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Looks good!

imagemeister wrote:

3 exposure JPEG HDR in camera ( 5EV), convert to infra-red in Elements 9, tweak.

Sony A77II and Rokinon 16mm f2 from monopod, f5.6

bylinecl

Stunning. You surely know how to make that program work. Thanks.