Stunning Digital Black & White Conversion Technique
Andrei at Design by Fire has posted some wonderful black and white digital photos from his trip to the Greek isle of Santorini. The artcle titled Santorini in black & white, has a great tutorial at the end that applies the Greg Gorman Color to B&W Conversion Technique. Greg is a commercial photographer with much of his photography being found on movie posters, like The Italian Job,The Pirates of the Caribbean, and Pearl Harbor. The results of the technique are stunning. As Andre puts it, “You’ll never again use Image>Mode>Grayscale or muck with the Channel Mixer once you see this technique in action”.



That is an excellent conversion technique. It is amazing how much more depth and richness can be achived. I’d never really explored the LAB colour profile before. It seems to make sense for going to b&w. And I like how using the adjustment layer ensures that you don’t lose any picture detail.
I could not see the conversion