Creating high impact black and white images
Black and white is favored by a lot of photographers – it evokes feelings of antiquity, style, and artiness in many different scenarios.
The trouble is, if you ask a bunch of photographers how to convert a file into black and white, they'll come up with multiple different ways of doing it – some good, some great, some too complex.
Elements makes this process a little easier with a specific Convert to Black and White tool. Here's how it works:
- Open an image.
- Choose the Convert to Black and White tool (Alt/Opt + Ctrl/Cmd + B or Enhance | Convert to Black and White).
- The Convert window opens and the image in the main edit space automatically converts into one of the black and white recipes on offer. With the introduction of higher resolution monitors, the fixed-shape preview before and after windows are less relevant than the main image behind it.
- Choose from one of the recipes on offer, that is, Infrared effect, Newspaper, Portraits...
