If you are interested in trying out these open source (free!) programs here are a couple of posts that might help: The photo processing tools on my belt.In this automated world, we perform all our work with the help of computers. It was a surprise to see that the black and white feels a bit warmer than the original.įor Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and Brashley Photography’s Mid-Week Monochrome. I was curious to see what would happen to this photo that doesn’t seem to have much color in it. Simple de-saturation using the GIMP’s built-in tool. Spring Sky Changing weather viewed over Colvos Passage on Puget Sound. Maybe I should go in to the colored one and try to emulate that effect. It’s probably not a fair comparison because the black and white had the background darkened and blurred a bit. I chose this one because it is almost monochrome in green. Converted to black and white using the Nik plug-in to the GIMP. What do you think? Un-furling A bracken fern unfurling. In one the flowers stand out more from the background but there isn’t as much emphasis on the design on the petals. I couldn’t decide which of these two black and whites to choose. This photo, with two variations shows how you can get different effects. Converted to black and white using Raw Therapee’s luminance equalizer method. Converted to black and white using the GIMP’s built-in mono-mixer tool.ĭo you think it still feels like spring with the color removed? Siberian Iris My neighbor’s irises. Spring woods Fern Cove on Vashon Island in Puget Sound. Here are a few photos from the past few weeks. It is very interesting to see how different elements catch your eye when you remove color. Specifically using open-source software (the GIMP and Raw Therapee). If you are interested in trying out the GIMP (a free, open-source program) for black and white here is a post that explores some of the tools available: Black and white digital photo processing using the GIMP.įor the past year or so I’ve been studying black and white. I added a vignette to some of the photos.For the Color to gray layer I changed the layer mode and adjusted it’s opacity.I tried all of the methods available and chose the one best suited to the photo. On the lower layer I used the Desaturate tool (Colors>Desaturate>Desaturate).Adjusting the parameters to suit the image. For the top layer I used the Color to gray filter (Colors>Desaturate>Color to gray).Make two duplicates of the adjusted image.In the photo of the falls I used layer masks to use different settings for the falls, which were in shadows. Fine tune the tone and contrast using either the levels or the tone curve (black and white often looks better if the contrast is greater and the whole range from black to white is used).Resize the image and sharpen it (resizing usually softens an image).Then I adjusted the opacity of the color to gray layer to get the effect I liked. In the cases above I chose the soft light mode. I put the color to gray image over the desaturated one and experimented with different blend modes. I used two different tools, both found in the Desaturate submenu of the Colors menu: Desaturate and Color to gray. How to get the look:įor these photos I used the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, a.k.a., the GIMP to create the black and white images. In this post I have focused on landscapes, on my other blog I posted some black and whites of wildflowers from last week using the same processing methods: Mount Rainier wildflowers in black and white.
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