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Re: [OM] IMG: Black & White

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Black & White
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:59:56 -0700
On 8/20/2018 1:21 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
I can't satisfy everyone, Moose.

Sure you can; I love the color original!

If I were to convert it to monochrome, I would do it differently. <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Nichols/Pretty_Face.htm>

To my taste, the SEfxP2 version you show isn't very attractive. It brightens the background while darkening the foreground. That tends to pull my eye to the background. The playground of light tones upon which the bee plays in the color becomes drab and doesn't pull my eye into the interplay of flower and bee.

Then there's the sharpening, which makes things edgy and leaves halos around 
bee details of claws, hair, etc.

My version is much simpler, just changing color for monochrome. I did take a quick try at doing something similar in SEfxP2, and I suspect it can be done, but it is, to me, much more complex. The PS tool is so simple, six sliders to brighten or dim the three primaries and three secondary colors. I brightened Yellow, to bring up the flower to something like the visual place it holds in color and pulled Green down just a little, to darken the background.

Different Tones Moose

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