The first step you will want to do is crop your picture. By making the picutre semetrical you are making the eye wonder to other parts of the photo. When you make your picture cropped off-center, you are creating a focal point that immediatly the eye is drawn to.
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The second step on making your black and white photo is to click the adjust color: saturation button, which should be available with all pc computers. Then you are going to drag it completely to the left; getting rid of all color in the photo. This is where most people stop, but you will make your photo look betting in just three more steps!
all saturation gone
The next two steps are fairly simple. You are going to adjust the contrast, and the brightness. This basically means make the black's darker and the whites in the photo whiter. For this photo above you will make the photo 1/4 lighter and 1/4 more contrast. Each photo will depend on the different colors involved, but those variations are pretty standard.
Brightness: Contrast:
Now, you will adjust the color of this black and white photo! It sounds crazy, but it looks great. Since this photo was of a sunflower we know yellow is the main warm color in it. So you are going to take the TINT of the photo and increase it to bring out the warm colors and darken the cool colors.
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The last step will be to increase the color tempurature slightly. This will create a less harsh black and bring out some of the small details of the photo. You just created your first professional looking photo, make sure to show all your friends and family... they will be impressed!
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This is really cool, you give very well written detailed instructions. It's really easy to follow along.
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