Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> If you want to do your B&W shooting in color you can apply filters in
> PhotoShop as you're doing the conversion to B&W. The only thing you
> can't do after the fact is simulate a polarizer. For example, you could
> simultate a very strong red filter by choosing to convert the luminosity
> of only the red channel to B&W while discarding the other two channels
> entirely. Since there's little red in a blue sky the sky would appear
> much darker (as though it had been a deep blue) and the clouds would be
> very bright in comparison and thus they would be accentuated by the
> strong contrast.
>
> You could easily spend a day or two with PhotoShop exploring the
> different methods of converting a color shot to B&W.
>
Indeed! In PSCS and later, there is a photofilter function htat allows
getting an effect very much like using a real color filter.
Moose
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