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Photography - Tips/Tutorials: The Gradient Map Tool

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      CommentAuthorhelen
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2008 edited
     
    I am what you would call a 'low end user' when it comes to Photoshop, so I hope this I came across this link a while back, then lost track of it and decided to post it here for others. I thought it was a great article and the accompanying video/tutorial was so good I spent ages tracking it down again and have now downloaded it. http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=708297
    I have seen quite a few different suggestions of how to convert images to Black and White but prefer this as this tool easily converts color images to black-and-white, or colorizes grayscale or color images.
    Thanks to Craig for posting the link as a reply to someone's comment in the first place.
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    Looks very interesting. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I see that this has other applications, too, but for black and whie, I use the following procedure in Photoshop CS3. You go to Image -- Adjustments -- Black and White. This gives really rich tones straight off, and allows fine adjustment, too. Before CS3, I used to use the Channel Mixer, which is also under Adjustments. Here you uncheck the Monochrome box. The latter method can produce very good results too, after making some adjustments, although I prefer the first way, myself. You can also go Image -- Mode -- Gray Scale, but this simply discards all colour information and does not give any way to fine tune the results.

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