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Typo City here; meant PS CS2!Opened image in PS2.
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Typo City here; meant PS CS2!Opened image in PS2.
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Not everyone has access to the internet 24/7 - maybe he is traveling or working? Give it time, I'm sure he'll be back.So, no comments from the original poster?
All that work from Bob and myself!
Have not used LR or Silver Efex so an interesting tale (and conversion). Thanks for joining in!I imported it into Lightroom and did the following:
a) set the blacks level at 3
b) increased the vibrance to 20
c) added some low (0.7) radius sharpening
d) applied some noise reduction
e) applied a correction for the chromatic aberration
Then I exported it to Silver Efex Pro and did the following:
a) selected the "High Structure" preset
b) applied a green filter
c) added a slight vignette
d) added the gold tone preset (because it's Paris, right?) and decreased the intensity a little
Then I opened it in Photoshop and did the following:
a) added the border
b) applied a slight curves adjustment
The B&W conversion took all of two minutes at most. I spent more time making corrections to the color image in Lightroom. The point I am trying to make is that before you convert to B&W, you really need to have the color file looking as good as possible, and that is what often takes the majority of the time.
La Ville-Lumière!It's certainly 3 years ago since I did the last BW conversion… so I took the chance to play around with this image a bit. It's fun after all
Some thoughts about the "why" …
- the scene shows a lot of light sources so I thought the image should be a bit "shiny" and not too dark overall as this would be a kind of a discrepancy