High contrast black and white photography

It's not that easy to turn photo into black and white photo, sometimes it's not exactly black and white photo as I wanted it to be. I usually turn my photo into black and white photo by changing the color mode into grayscale, and by doing that I usually lost my photo sharpness or it's contras. Well with this new technique I don't have to worry about my photo sharpness or contrast, I hope you learn something new here...


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Read these the step by step tutorial if you like :














1. Open calculations tool by click image/calculations.














2. Change the blending mode into soft light.















3. Change the source #2 channel for the best contrast.














4. Choose new document for result, so your new image will be in new decument.
5. Click OK to continue.

Now you have a nice high contrast black and white photo rather than a dull B/W photo

You might wanna see this:
1. Black & White Photography Techniques with Adobe Photoshop by Maurice Hamilton.
2. Professional Techniques for Black & White Digital Photography by Patrick Rice.
3. Digital Infrared Photographyby Patrick Rice.
4. Photoshop Masking & Compositing by Katrin Eismann.
5. Adobe Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques by Ben Willmore.