Black and White photography: How do I get rid of the gray in my photos?

Question

When I convert my photos to B&W on Photoshop, there is a lot of gray and not so much BLACK and WHITE. Is there a way on photoshop to make it pure black and white? I adjust the whites in levels however, it makes the subjects in my photo have really bright faces. What settings do I change on my Nikon D80 (if there's nothing I can do on photoshop).

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Gray is part of black and white. If you want Black and white open it up in paint and save it as a monochrome bitmap.

Answer 2

Using a Selective Color Adjustment Layer is a very good way to get great controll over the contrast in a black&white image. Google or check tutorialized.com for tutorials.

Answer 3

use the Posteize, Stamp or the Threshold filters, no gray, just hard black and white. This is not considered black and white by the way; just odd shapes that resemble a picture.

Answer 4

If you have the latest version of Photoshop, go to Image->Adjust->Black and White.

Move the colour sliders around to get the effect you want. You could also play around with the 'presets' in this window. Find one you like and then adjust it further.



Photoshop is VERY versatile

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

start with a well exposed image, use the contrast and brightness control to fiddle it after you have turned it to monochrome in the channel mixer and adjusted the RGB to give a nice punchy contrast to tune



there is no real quick fix answer except learn exposure and enhancing bettererer



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Answer 8

Don't use convert to greyscale use hue and saturation remove color with the master then play with the lightness sliders in blue, green, red, and yellow.

Answer 9

gray is part of B&W photo.

Answer 10

desaturate the image and then adjust the contrast.

Answer 11

nothing you can do on photoshop? oh please.



read the book: figure out how to work the contrast. :)