mindzye wrote:
Keep in mind, if you can't do what Chg_Canon recommends (great thought, btw), then when you do your conversion there are a couple of ways to do this. One is just to convert to b/w via the button that says, well, conversion to b/w.
Simple enough. Yet that won't give you the full spectrum of tonalities as it's a generic form of transforming the original color image.
What is recommended is to take it into Vibrance, Saturation - in Affinity it is simply labeled black and white - or whatever your particular program calls it, and take all the color sliders back. This will give you a full palate of tonalities with which to work.
It is a preferable method to those I've studied and spoken with, and good results are easier to accomplish, it seems, to finalize a 'classic' b/w image - yeah I know, now describe 'classic' -.....
One can use the sliders on the b/w details menu, where the separate colors can be used to enhance or detract for several varying tonality choices.
Quite some time ago I came across an article that explained how Hollywood transformed their color images to the
'classic' b/w tones they produced. If memory serves me, they had certain percentages of....well, this & that ! -to achieve their look. When I find it I'll post it.
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