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Newby, to Digital Photograph, many years since I used Film or Slides. Have only took Colour snaps
as of yet, but last night I tried to convert a Colour photo to B&W.
I took it two days before the Motion comp was called, and the only motion in it is frozen. however
I put it up here, for comments, to see if I am going the right way or not ?
Eric - you haven't detailed how you have converted your image to B&W, or which software you are using for the conversion. This makes it difficult to explain how to make any changes.
I've uploaded a v quick mod of your image. Your original is very flat and lacking in contrast. I have used PS CS2 and have used a 'channel mixer' layer selected monochrome, and then re-adjusted the red, green blue levels. Put in a levels layer and adjusted the sliders to adjust the overall contrast.
As said - without knowing the software used it's very difficult to give specific help.
HTH
Geoff
In that case Eric, you might like to try these:
Picasa
FastStone
http://download.cnet.com/PhotoScape/3000-2192_4-10703122.html
GIMP
They're all pretty good in their own way. You'll need to experiment a bit to see which bits of each best suit your needs.
As Jeff has said, Pixlr has a lot to offer and to my mind is at least as good, and probably better than, GIMP which has traditionally been regarded as a poor man's answer to Photoshop.
It's got a far more intuitive interface as well.
Also, although I've never tried it, I reckon that just about any one of the tutorials that are available for other programmes will be perfectly usable on Pixlr. You might find that some of the tools will be in different places or have different names but, with a little perseverance, they'll still do the job.
Hope this helps.
Jester.
Jester, Thanks for the above advice, but sadly you do not know that my computer is a very old
one, one that was thrown away many years ago, which my G/son got working for me to play on.
He told me then that I could not download anything on to it, as the H/D and Ram would not take it. Two weeks ago having been advised to get Picasa or Gimp, I decided to give it a try, after which I wished I had not, first Picasa stopped halfway through D/load, massage Disc full. after clearing the D/L, I was silly enough to try Gimp, with the same effect, after clearing that, the computer started crashing ' Blue Page Warnings that windows was having to close it down',
I am still getting at least one of these a day. The Pixir, I went to the site and looked at it, looked
a little beyond me, but I will go back when my G/son has looked into the Crashes, he is in no hurry, he says I must learn to do as I am told.
The top 2/3 has a nice pattern shot and the bottom 1/3 has all the action but the two don't seem to gel. From a black and white point of view the blacks have detail and its got a good tonal range, if i was been picky i would l the snow to be slightly whiter. For me its more the composition rather than the B&W processing.
If you upload images to the gallery you may get a quicker response, not everyone checks the forums
Rick
You asked me to comment on this --well, I agree with Rick-- the same comments really -- on first look all I saw was the pattern of the flowers in the black hedge -- the 'main subject' the birds are hidden too dark in the bottom half -- if it was a 'film' negative then it would be easy to print it lighter on a softer grade of paper and everything would stand out better.
Quote: Thanks for the above advice, but sadly you do not know that my computer is a very old
one, one that was thrown away many years ago, which my G/son got working for me to play on.
He told me then that I could not download anything on to it, as the H/D and Ram would not take it.
You may want to look at a new machine, as it sounds like the one you have will have difficulty in running any of the current software.
Well if you have an old computer, why download the programmes you cant run?
try an online editor such as this one: http://pixlr.com/editor/
has filters, layers, etc... basic but etter than nothing.
Quote: try an online editor such as this one: http://pixlr.com/editor/
has filters, layers, etc... basic but etter than nothing
Better still, reinstall with the latest ubuntu, its surprising how much faster and better an old pc can run with this.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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