The Art of Black and White Photography
What you’ll learn
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How to create technically optimal and aesthetically stunning black and white images with Photoshop.
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How to develop an effective, powerful, and efficient black and white workflow.
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How to use a range of black and white conversion techniques to maximise the impact of your images.
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How to evaluate the tonal range and tonal balance of an image in order to work out the changes that need to be made during subsequent post-production.
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How to use the histogram effectively.
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How to create and use adjustment layers.
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How to use masks to seamlessly blend two or more adjustment layers.
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How to use the Curves tool, Photoshop’s most powerful tool, to apply both global and selective changes to the tonal range and tonal balance of your images.
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How to blend two or more conversion techniques within the same image.
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How to smooth skin tones, a technique that’s especially useful for portraits of women and children.
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How to lighten your subject’s eyes.
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How to maximise the detail in your subject’s face: especially suitable for male portraiture.
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How to add unique and compelling tones to your images to really bring them to life.
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Many of the most powerful, memorable and effective photographs are black and white images. With digital photography though you can no longer take a great black and white photograph… but you can create one using the black and white photography techniques taught in this course. So if you’re confused about which black and white conversion techniques to use, unsure about how to adjust the tonal range and balance of your black and white photos using curves and masks want to make more of your black and white portraits and you want to learn how to tone your black and white images this course is for you. What black and white photography techniques are you going to learn:
* You’re going to learn how to use a range of powerful flexible and non-destructive black and white conversion techniques. You’re will learn which are the most useful and powerful e.g. the Channel Mixer and Black and White tool when to use one technique rather than another and which techniques to avoid (and why).
* You will learn how to evaluate the tonal range and tonal balance of an image and then how to make global and selective changes using adjustment layers selections masks and the Curves tool: four of the most powerful tools and techniques within Photoshop.
* You’ll then learn how to use these tools and techniques to overcome some of the unique problems you’ll face when converting your portraits to black and white including how to delineate your subject from the background how to work with skin tones to maximise detail or smooth your subject’s skin and how to enhance your subject’s eyes.
* You’ll learn how to add unique and complex tones that will really bring your black and white images to life.
* You’re going to learn how to embed all of these tools and techniques into a flexible powerful and repeatable
workflow.
* But this isn’t just a course about post-production and Photoshop: each video will also enable you to develop the skills and give you black and white photography tips you need to create not only technically optimal black and white photographs but ones that are aesthetically striking too.
* When you create a black and white image pressing the shutter is just the start. Sign up for The Art of Black and White Photography and take the next step now. Downloads are ENABLED for this course!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn how to create technically optimal and aesthetically stunning black and white images.
12 reviews for The Art of Black and White Photography
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Nigel Crooks –
At the beginning I didn’t understand anything about Black & White conversions with Photoshop. But David explains everything about the best and the worst ways of doing things. This is, without doubt, an excellent course if you want to really learn how to get started using Photoshop to convert your photos to Black & White. I’ll be looking forward to some more of his courses on Udemy.
Carlos Kiffer –
Curso repleto de informações sobre a conversão preto e branco, mostrando inúmeros técnicas e comparando-as para que, no final, a melhor seja aplicada. O instrutor demonstra completo domínio da ferramenta e ampla experiência em fotografia o que facilita no processo de aprendizado.
Bryan Timmons –
Really excellent introduction to some sophisticated black and white photography techniques. I thoroughly recommend this course.
Miguel Dávila –
Muy buen curso para aquellos que no sabemos mucho de Photoshop. Excelente metodología. Me hubiese gustado obviar ciertos métodos para la conversión de B/N que no eran tan versátiles y directamente ir a los mejores, pero entiendo que él quiso enseñar todo… ¡Recomendado!
Anonymized User –
I believe that this is one of the most comprehensive courses for those who wish to master postproduction techs to-the-next-level applied to the art of monochrome photography.
Sergio Pedone –
A really good course to bring solid foundation about black and white photography. A great variety of technique for different purpose in matter of time or flexibility. One only note about the speed of the teacher: I have to set 0.75x ratio to listen well the description. In the end… 5 stars for me!
Jhansen R. Machado –
Instructor is very clear in his explanations and he demonstrates great knowledge of the tools. I’m very happy.
Debbie Sutton –
Very clear, explicit teaching. Good technical coverage. No dumbed down at all. Excellent!
Cindy Smith –
Wow! Fantastic. This is opening a Pandora’s Box in possibilities with my photographs! It is going to be great experimenting with these!
Robert Mason –
Really Great Info
David Gray –
I have been using Photoshop for years, but only for the most basic edits. So far I’ve learned a lot and looking forward to the rest of the course.
Donna morgan –
very informative