Original Garden Photo

Black and White (using RGB)

Second Black and White

( using the Gradient Map)

A while back we had to take a one of our garden photos and play with Adobe Photoshop to get a black and white photo.

At the top its the original photo that I took in our own school garden. I thought the colour would have been fun to experiment With black and white channels.

The second photo is the black and white photo using RGB. RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue. With that filter I used the green channel. I used the green channel because while I was messing around with each channel i though the green channel had a more contrast then the other channels. 


The last photo, I used the Gradient Map. When i first hear about the gradient map I thought it was something that had to do with cropping a photo. Then once we learned how to use it, it had nothing to do with cropping it. With the Gradient Map its a little bit different then RGB. Once you use this filter it already switches it to black and white. You also get to play around with the lights and darks. To brighten up the flower (so it would have been emphasized) I bumped up the brights a little. Just to make the flower stand out. With the darks I made the background a bit darker as well just to once again emphasize the flower.

Personally I like using the Gradient Map more because I get to have my own personal settings for the black and white photo. I would recommend using the Gradient map on a black and white photo. If you would like to emphasize the red, the blues or the greens in a black and white photo use the RGB it helps a lot.

Thank you for reading and reviewing this post on different channels for a black and white photo.