Trees of Brandywine

[dooda]

I was just looking through the pictures of my last foray into the woods near Brandywine falls (a truly great name) and found this diddy. Threw it into PSCS and didn't think much of it. Contrast, curves, USM at 3 million, still nothing. Realized tried desaturating and it looked pretty good, but it brought up lots of noise in the sky. I then went to Mode, Greyscale, and it automatically went to BW and smoothed out the sky no problem. Does anyone know why this is? What's the best way to go BW?

[xerubus]

i convert the same way that greg gorman does.... have a look at the following thread...

http://forum.d70users.com/viewtopic.php ... ght=gorman

cheers

[Killakoala]

I would say that DESATURATE still has colour information in it but GREYSCALE is only shades of grey. With greyscale there is less information so there's less that can go wrong or cause extras to confuse the colour information, providing a cleaner picture.

I am sure MattK would provide a better and easier to understand explanation than i can.......

[sirhc55]

If you are going from colour you are actually looking at a maximum of 255 shades in greyscale - from black through white. Therefore there would be a form of smoothing throughout the picture as the colour is being interpolate to these 255 shades

[dooda]

So, for the life of me, I can't find the channel palette. It simply isn't there. I seem to recognize the name of it, like I think it used to just pop up. But it isn't there anymore. Does anyonen know how I can get at it? I'm pretty sure that unless I can get that palette I can't try out that BW conversion thing by Gorman. Those are some pretty cool portraits that he's got there.

Edit Oops, I finally found it. I must say I'm getting bizaare results though. Not quite sure how to control that color. I'll try this a few more times on some other pics and see how it works out.