B&W Effect
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- ********
I have tried my damnedest, but cannot seem to pull this particular black and white effect off. Can someone give me some clues?
- meffid0
VSCO.
- monospaced0
levels, crush blacks, then don't output the lowest end
- dbloc0
bring contrast down
- mg330
I like doing a single color overlay layer of a dark black or charcoal color, and then setting it to Lighten or Screen. You can then play around with the right color and the opacity to get something like this.
But I can also confirm that LR presets from VSCO can accomplish the same thing. I use Film 02 as a starting point for edits, and the two B&W emulations, followed by trial and error adjustments can get you there.
- monNom0
Try this:
Duplicate layer, invert, set layer blend mode to 'soft light'. That will take the peaks off your highlights, and the depth out of your blacks.After that try adding a bit to your output levels.
- vaxorcist0
may depend on the original... depends on the clothes, the flash,etc... this was shot with flash, indoors,etc.. and filters to make digital files look supposedly like B/W Ilford HP5 film,etc...
- vaxorcist0
curves in lightroom/photoshop, where you may make the "curve" look more like an "S" shape... and possibly burn the skin a bit and dodge the pure white areas like white shirt details,etc...
also note that when you convert color to B/W, you can tweek the colors before, i.e. add a TON of yellow or green, convert to B/W and then compare to if you subtract yellow, add a TON of red, then convert to B/W,etc
- hotroddy0
^ Agreed. totally depends on original. Post here and we'll give it a shat.
- ok_not_ok0
Desaturate your image then apply this in curves.
- albums0
Another method:
Desaturate
Brightness / Contrast > Increase contrast to +50%
Replace Color > Select black > Increase lightness +15
I've used a version of this method to turn B/W images to "Greenscale" for a client years ago
- crush blacks a TINY bit before you start, though, to finish the effect (I'm actually serious)monospaced
- i crushed them with the contrast after the desaturation?albums
- I think it might be better first, to remove some of the shadow detailsmonospaced
- ok_not_ok0
I guess it also works with colored images
- mg330
Was working on some photos of myself yesterday for a project. This is using Ilford in VSCO, along with other edits.
- ********0
Thanks, team awesome. Very helpful.
- cruddlebub0
vsco is brilliant!
