Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 9:30 pm
Hmmm--I think I confused myself with this image, but I came up with some major insights that I should have caught on to long ago!
Example 1 is before I set a neutral point and just manually moved everything to neutral. Thus it just now dawned on me that if you make the A and B channels at 0 throughout the image, you make the image black and white. Duh--it takes me awhile before a concept REALLY sinks in. I mistakenly thought that was the only way to get rid of color casts--and, yes, it really does! And I was so proud of myself that I got everything to 0's throughout the image...!
Example B: I set a neutral. Amazing--when you set a neutral you effectively lock out changing the middle of the curve. You "set" the neutral in stone. How come I never realized this before?! (Don't answer that; it would be embarrassing!). Then I torqued up the saturation and got a more interesting image. I have two versions of this, and I'm not sure what I did to the second version (forgot to get a screen shot before I applied it), but it's still B&W. More contrast than the original neutral B&W.
To be continued in the next post.
Example 1 is before I set a neutral point and just manually moved everything to neutral. Thus it just now dawned on me that if you make the A and B channels at 0 throughout the image, you make the image black and white. Duh--it takes me awhile before a concept REALLY sinks in. I mistakenly thought that was the only way to get rid of color casts--and, yes, it really does! And I was so proud of myself that I got everything to 0's throughout the image...!
Example B: I set a neutral. Amazing--when you set a neutral you effectively lock out changing the middle of the curve. You "set" the neutral in stone. How come I never realized this before?! (Don't answer that; it would be embarrassing!). Then I torqued up the saturation and got a more interesting image. I have two versions of this, and I'm not sure what I did to the second version (forgot to get a screen shot before I applied it), but it's still B&W. More contrast than the original neutral B&W.
To be continued in the next post.