Experiment with both and see what works best for you, and you’ll see there are different scenarios where one works better than the other. The other way is to have the slider fairly high, so you can see where you are painting, then once everything is covered, dial back the sliders to taste. One is to have the slider value fairly high, and the flow of the brush fairly low, from which I will then slowly let the effect build up to taste as I brush over the area.
I’ll do this in one of two different ways. In this scenario, I would like for the brides hair to stand out a little more, but because we don't want to go overboard in this area, we are going to be less heavyhanded on the slider. Now that we have taken care of all the spots that we wanted to be black but were not, we now need to take care of all the areas that are black that we want to be white. I will also mention that although I start with a curves adjustment, a lot of the time, I'll revisit the curves adjustment at this point and fine-tune how high I have the highlights boosted. If you have a stubborn spot that does not go to black with a single brush adjustment, you can just add another layer of brushing onto that spot. To fix this, I use the brush tool with the exposure slider set to -4 and brush over any details that I want to go black. I also lift the blacks a bit in order to give them a slight fade.įrom here, I crank the contrast slider to +100 and the shadows, blacks, and saturation sliders to -100.Īs you can tell, we are almost there, but you can see some details in the ground. The Editīecause this is a high contrast black and white, I start by adding a curves adjustment to boost the highlights.
#Black and white 1 bit how to#
To save some time, I’ll just explain how to get the final result instead of stepping through it in the chaotic way that I stumbled upon it. This is where I started going a little crazy with the sliders and developed this process. I like it, but it’s nothing super special. The above image is the unprocessed raw file. She is not moving very much, so she remains sharp, while the motion of her dress is streaked by the slow shutter. The image I liked the most is the one below of the bride adjusting her dress. I wanted to try and get some movement from the bride walking around, so I set my shutter to 1/10th of a second and braced the camera against the ledge of the balcony.
My wife was taking the ladies outside to start some of the formals and the groom’s room happened to be right above where they were heading outside. The bride and groom were getting ready at the same hotel, and I was shooting the groom and groomsman upstairs. To start, I’ll explain how I shot this image. But every once in a while, you can stumble onto something pretty awesome.
What happens if I take this slider all the way up and this slider all the way down? For the most part, the results are entertaining, but not really aesthetically pleasing. I am sure we have all had those days where you stare at an image and just start moving sliders up and down to see what they do.
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