Dramatic Black and White Photography in the Digital Age
$69.99
What you’ll learn
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The core principles behind black & white conversion, so you can successfully apply them to your own artwork using a whole range of the most powerful and flexible black & white conversion techniques
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How to evaluate tonal range in your images with the Histogram tool and use it as a basic reference in your workflow
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Master the most effective and flexible photo editing Photoshop tool: Curves
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The best ways to fix common issues in black & white photographs, such as “flat” images, washed-out sky, eyes obscured by shadows, low contrast, lack of definition and lack of details and texture
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Pro tips to blend multiple adjustments in a seamless way in one image with help of masking techniques
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Insights into how to work in non-destructive way with Adjustment Layers — and massively speed up your workflow in the process
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How RGB additive color model works and advice on how to apply this knowledge to your work
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Useful techniques to pick out details and, in an intelligent way, sharpen selected areas within the frame
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Easy and intuitive ways to improve your images by applying targeted adjustments in a few simple steps
Black and white photography is an art — not just a click of a button that changes a colour image to monochrome. The creative process is a fun and exciting journey that this course, “Dramatic Black & White Photography in the Digital Age,” helps you confidently and efficiently create cinematic, timeless images. Packed with high quality, downloadable supporting materials (14 high resolution TIFF files), this hands-on tutorial provides you with step-by-step edits necessary for you to work effectively, in a non-destructive way, make intelligent creative decisions and get the artistic and dramatic black & white results you desire.
Sharpen Your Skills
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Simple Monochrome Conversion
Get results fast working with simple “one step” methods of black & white conversion such as Desaturate, Hue/Saturation and Grayscale.
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RGB Model & Photoshop Channels
You’ll learn how to evaluate your images with dedicated Photoshop tools. And you’ll also develop a deep understanding of RGB color mode, its relation to photographic filters and how to use sophisticated methods to perform stunning black & white conversions.
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Advanced Black & White Conversion
Explore the range of advanced black & white conversion methods: LAB Color, Hue/Saturation with Adjustment Layer, Twin Hue/Saturation Method, Gradient Map, Channel Mixer, Black & White tool and Adobe Camera RAW Plugin.
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Master Black & White Artwork
Discover the most important components of powerful monochrome artwork: tonal separation between key elements in your image and strong contrast and wide tonal range, including rich shadow and highlight detail.
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The Histogram & Levels Tools
Learn how to extend tonal range in your images with the Levels tool. Reference the luminosity adjustments with the Histogram to avoid clipping shadows or highlights in your photos.
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Non-Destructive Workflow
You’ll explore combining masks and adjustment layers to achieve your creative vision and maintain great flexibility. Together we’ll create alternative versions of one photo in no time. This also allows you to revisit your artwork in the future and bring new ideas to life with just a few easy adjustments.
Who this course is for:
- Take this course if you love photography
- Take this course if you are fascinated with the timeless beauty of black and white images
- Take this course if you want to create b&w conversions like a pro!
- Take this course if you want to learn in detail powerful and flexible Photoshop techniques to improve your photos
- Take this course if you are curious about techniques behind dramatic black and white photographs
- Take this course if you are an artist and would like to introduce digital techniques in your creative process
- Take this course if you want to learn how to create digital artwork that sells well on image stocks like Sutterstock, iStock, Alamy and others – b&w vintage style is now more trendy than ever!
- Take this course if you want to develop artistic skills in fields of creative photo processing
Scott Sewares –
I kind of played around with Photoshop, but this is the time I have dived deeply into the program. This course gave me some good information on making really good black and white photos.
Theodore Mitchell –
Thank you for giving me the skills to improve my black and white photography. Your techniques were explained in such a manner so as I was able to use them and see the result and improvement from the first image. thank you again. You are an great instructor.
Anthony Marks –
This is a pretty amazing course. This may appear to be a recipe type tutorial, but it is not.
She teaches you how to slowly build up great looking black and white photos using a set of tools that she commonly uses at her disposal and goes through various images that explore her thought process on improving an image.
While there is a process in place that is similar for each photo, the gems come from how to look at a photo and embellish it with your own creative eye. Great course!
Mohammed Khazal –
Excellent Teacher thank you very much for this good lecture ,I’m happy with you to take this cours ,good information flexibility to show the following ,very nice job ….thank you very much.
Rob Shiels –
Not knowing anything about Photoshop, Kasia is easy to understand and she proceeds through the lectures slowly and carefully . As I am going through the course I am finding that what I wanted to learn is exactly what Kasia is teaching. It is important to review each course to see what they are teaching. In my case it is what I was looking for and learning quickly and efficiently what I wanted to learn.
Sergio Pedone –
Well discussed concepts, clear english audio.
A deep tour with the color theory and black&white conversion.
Several tool can be used for different workflow and good guide for masking and layers.
Many examples of complete post processing from source colour image to a black and white converted image.
I’m very happy to complete this course, so I can do a b&w conversion much better. 5 stars!!!
Christian Rocque –
Great Photoshop tips and hints. The instructor start from some PS basics, but it’s really rewarding to follow with the edit of 7 images. Great course.
Cristian Castro –
Es un buen curso, muy bien explicado, pero en ocasiones no se entiende bien su inglés por la pronunciación que tiene y los subtitulos son malísimos. El curso me parece adecuado, es lo que esperaba encontrar.
Gracias
Marc Labro –
Je conseille ce cours.
Je trouvais l’approche du formateur très intéressante. La façon dont elle analysait l’image et traitait chaque partie de l’image avec les courbes.
J’utilisais jusque là la courbe en S sans les points cibles, sans modifier le masque,… donc très bien de voir comment bloquer ou accentuer des zones…
La diversité des projets permet de mieux comprendre les outils.
J’ai beaucoup aimé la retouche du paysage marin.
Comme je l’ai dit, on pourrait imaginer de donner un sang neuf à ce même cours avec un peu plus de lightroom/camera raw pour l’exposition, la retouche locale, le bruit-surtout pour l’exemple Herman-, de sylver efex pro2 (u-points) et surtout de luminosity masking (actions gratuites ou lumenzia, TK actions,…) pour parfaire les sélections des zones claires et foncées. La brosse de photoshop est un peu pénible à utiliser (pas de prise en compte des contours,…)
marc
J. Aurelio Farias R. –
muy bien curso, recomendable para entender muchos puntos para hacer mejorar las foto, un poco lento, pero bueno, seria bueno que mostrara mas el contenido delas mascaras de capa.
Simeon –
Good explanation of tools, but editing demos at the end of course is exactly how you should not work. Wrong working with masks with poor result. This course is not for all levels, but for beginners with very poor Photoshop skills.
Sergio Rivera Rocha –
The course seemed too short in the beginning, but it was just perfect. I have just finished it and it was just what I excepted. Great course, great photographer. My black and white photography has drastically improved thanks to this course.