Category Archives: Photoshop Tutorial

Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 8

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Gene Wilburn

Plugins for Black and White After exploring the techniques introduced in this series, you may think, yeah, they’re effective, but it’s a lot of work to get to a finished image. Aren’t there any shortcuts? The happy answer is yes. … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 7

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Gene Wilburn

Vignetting for B&W Vignetting a photograph simply means making the edges and corners of an image darker or lighter than the rest of the image. With subtle vignetting, the treatment subdues the background, leading the eye to the foreground. Heavy … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 6

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Gene Wilburn

Layer Masks We covered Layers previously, now let’s dive into Layer Masks, one of the handiest tools in your digital darkroom toolkit. Let’s start with this colour photo, a still life taken at Benares House Museum, Mississauga, Ontario. Now let’s … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 2

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Gene Wilburn

In-Camera B&W So. Let’s get started. The simplest way to get into B&W is to set your digital camera’s shooting mode to BW, Monochrome, Monotone, or whatever it may be called on your particular camera model. The above menu is … Continue reading →

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Digital Black and White Photography, Pt. 1

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Gene Wilburn

Introduction In the earliest periods of its history, photography was about black-and-white, or monochrome, images in the form of photographic prints, tintypes, and daguerrotypes. Later, colour films were developed–both colour transparency and colour negative films–and colour and black-and-white film coexisted … Continue reading →

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Photoshop Tutorial: Subdued Colour

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Gene Wilburn

Perhaps because I like monochrome images so much, I sometimes find the colour images produced by digital cameras too saturated for my taste.  I often find I need to use the Hue/Saturation tool in Photoshop to turn down the ‘volume’ … Continue reading →

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