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Turning a Color Photo to Black and White in Photoshop

Create another "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer and double-click on the new adjustment layer's icon(on the left half of the layer row). The layer icon is a scaled-down image representation of the layer for normal layers, but they have specific icons for adjustment layer types. Make sure you double-click on the new, top-most layer, labeled "Hue/Saturation 2". Also, make sure you double-click on the the left half of the layer.

Create another "Hue/Saturation" layer


A palette with 3 sliders will pop up. Drag the saturation all the way to the left, or enter the value "-100". This will desaturate the photo, leaving it in black and white.

Desaturate the adjustment layer

The image is now black and white, but you may want to fine tune it a little. Double-click on the layer icon(left side of the layer row) of the first "Hue/Saturation" layer, "Hue/Saturation 1."

Double-click on the first adjustment layer

The sliders will pop up again. Mess around with the "Hue", Saturation", and "Lightness" sliders until your are happy with the results.

Change the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness to your liking

You can selectively make Hue, Saturation, and Lightness adjustments to specific color groups; like "Greens" by going up to the field at the top of the "Hue/Saturation" dialog box(directly above the Hue slider) and selecting the color group you want to selectively adjust. You can selectively adjust the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness for each color group. So for this image, if you adjust the H/S/L for the "Greens"; you are only changing the green colors in your image.

You can selectively adjust the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness of specific color groups

You can see the adjustments in color by turning off the visibility of the second "Hue/Saturation" layer, "Hue/Saturation 2." To turn off the visibility of a layer, click on the eye icon to the left of the layer.

Turn off the visibility of the 2nd "Hue/Saturation" adjustment layer

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Article by Jeremy Baker



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