If you are a B&W lover like me you know that there are zillions of ways to convert a color photo into B&W. If you are still hooked to the days of B&W film you would probably like to know how to emulate film with a digital camera. Some say the best way to do this is to buy a nice film camera on Ebay and scan the films in the computer and voila, best of both worlds. That’s all fine, but also a lot of work and mostly work you’re not paid for. Furthermore I have far more fun with a camera in the field than behind my Mac spending hours on one picture.

I’ll give you three efficient ways to convert color into B&W. I use them quite a lot because of the time/quality ratio. The first is a Photoshop action from Kent Christiansen, you can find the pdf here and you can download the action itself on this page. It’s 3 years old but still very powerful because of its huge control.

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Play with it you’ll like it and it saves time with still a high quality output, like the one above, entirely done in 15 minutes. The second one is one from Continue Reading…