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Color to Black & White Conversion

Published by:  RaymondShay
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This article discusses one, of many, methods to convert color digital photographs to black and white properly ("Properly", means achieving the true look and mood of genuine black-and-white film). In my experience, the following method has the greatest versatility and covers the widest range of possible color images. That means that no one method works best on all images, but usually this method does very well on most. The technique is based on the method the old-timers came up with; that is, altering the black and white image via colored filters over their lens.
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