Black and white photography is no longer a tedious process that requires hours of darkroom work. Thanks to photoshop, black and white photography has become a very simple process.
Unlike film photographers, digital photographers can shoot in color and do the black and white conversion after the fact.
We compare 3 popular black and white actions for Photoshop that are freely available : Bill's black and white Photoshop action, Digidaan's black and white action, and Johny's black and white package.
The easiest way to convert to black and white using Adobe Photoshop is by simply selecting image > mode > grayscale. Doing this creates a very flat image.
What sets the black and white photoshop actions in this article apart is that they tweak the tonal properties of the image by using the channels in photoshop. This creates a much more dramatic black and white photograph.We liked Johnny's Black and white photoshop action as it comes packaged with a number of different tones such as sepia and sepia light.
Black and White Photography Actions Bill's Black and White Photography action DigiDaan's Black and White Photography action Johny's Black and White Photography action
