Making good black n white pics

Do anyone know of any tutorial on the internet on how to convert pictures to high quality black n whites in photoshop?

Permalink Reply by Bill Jones on November 20, 2007 at 6:40am: I don’t know any tutorials, but I can tell you it depends!
Use the channel mixer, check grayscale, then adjust the red, blue and green to get the image where you want it.
Remember the totals for all sliders added together should total 100.
After producing the BW image you like, I suggest going to mode grayscale, then mode duotone. Select one of the brown colors to warm up the image. Once you get the curves to your liking, change the mode back to RGB.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tommy-Mathias on November 20, 2007 at 7:23am: Okidoke. I'll try that :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bill Jones on November 24, 2007 at 4:03pm: How did it work out for you?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Richard S. on November 20, 2007 at 9:15am: Here are a couple good ones:
http://www.picturecorrect.com/photoshoptips/photoblackandwhite.htm
http://www.picturecorrect.com/photoshoptips/dodgeburn.htm
http://www.picturecorrect.com/photoshoptips/professional_black_and_...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jernej Fink on November 24, 2007 at 11:21pm: Hm, I've never followed any tutorials for making B&W pictures.

I just desaturate (Ctrl+Shift+U) the picture and then go to Brightness/Contrast, reduce the Brightness value and increase the contrast. It becomes kind of grainy, but looks very good.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tommy-Mathias on December 26, 2007 at 12:19am: I've found that the easiest and quickest way and which also gives a pretty good result is to use a gradient map in Photoshop that goes from black to white.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Julian Hebbrecht on April 5, 2008 at 9:17am: Easy and quick - yes - but you have no control whatsoever over the end result. Better go to Action Central - www.atncentral and there you can download several Photoshop action sets that will give you much better results.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Patrick on March 30, 2008 at 6:28am: Go to atncentral and you should find something you like for conveting to b&w; ▶ Reply to This