Want to enjoy the impact and appeal of black and white photos from your color collection? Black and white can give you an old-fashioned feel, a moody eloquence, or simply an uncomplicated look that highlights strong shapes and contrasts. Try these fast and easy methods that offer a range of tonal choices - so you can get the most from every photo you convert to black and white.
Basic
Grayscale
This is the most straighforward and common
method. You simply take your color photo and choose a new color
depth for it.
Desaturation
In advanced image
editors,
you can adjust saturation.
RGB
Channels
In advanced image editors, you will find that
if you separate your photo into its respective red, green and
blue color channels, each will appear gray. Green is the best RGB
channel to use for black and white photos.
Examples will show the effect of these methods