Woo what is up? that was a great photo shoot and if you have no idea what I'm
talking about click up here and you can watch the video just get up to speed a little
and then come back to this one
what we're talking about is epic black and
white photos. I'm going to show you guys how I took the pictures from the last
video and I made them like that epic like crisp high contrast black and white
that you see and you know you loved but for some reason your pictures aren't
turning out that way yours are kind of like flat but look a
little bit kind of desaturate it but not mmm
you don't that mmm that like punch you in the face black and white that's what
we're doing today but first I'm gonna go throw some axes with my friends
Oh and to clarify we're not just like going to a park and whipping axes in a playground
or some crazy **** like that we're going to an actual battle axe place so check this out
oh I'm so tired you guys just teach yourselves how to do
it just let's just do it yourself
alright fine I'll do it stop nagging me Jesus
all right who's ready for some epic black-and-whites let's do this
we've got our photo open in Photoshop it's a wicked picture of Lauren
honestly in color I'm totally happy with it we're gonna turn it to black and
white for the sake of the tutorial to show you how to get that high contrast like
punch you in the face black and white so the first thing I'm gonna do is actually
show you it's the wrong way to turn an image black and white and probably a
lot of people do this and this is why you get that like flat black and white
that just doesn't do it for you so what people are doing is a command shift U
that just simply desaturates the photo it is black and white yes but it's kind
of grey and it just it seems washed out that's the easy way if you want mediocre
black and white photos that's all you got to do we're gonna undo that and
we're gonna do it the proper way now what you're gonna want to do is edit
your image in color first get out all the imperfections have the image the way
you like it in color then we're going to convert it to black and white and that's
pretty straightforward make sure your color picker is set to
default where you can just press D on the keypad and you want to select it
black with white in the background and then you're gonna go over to your right
side click the gradient map gradient map will turn it black and
white and create a new layer boom so right away you can see versus the old
one I'll split them up on the screen right here the old ones a little bit
more washed out this version of doing black and white has a little bit more
contrast so to push it even further what you're
going to do is double-click the layer thumbnail
right here and a little box will come out click this gradient bar and another
pop-up will come up and you can actually play around with the slider of the black
and white to get it to where you want it to be so if you want super high contrast
black and white you just drag those blacks and whites in you can make the
white more dominant or you can make the black more dominant you know it's just a
matter of playing around with it and finding something that you're
comfortable with let's say we're happy with this right here
it's punchy but it's not a flat black and white we're gonna select our
background layer and here's where we're gonna actually play with hue saturation
which is right up here and if you check it out even though the image is in black
and white your hue and saturation change the way your image is perceived you see
that so find that comfortable middle ground where you want it to be like do I
want to brighten up the background a bit and you can see a lot more detail in her
hair or do I want to darken it up and make her hair a little bit lighter so I
think I like it somewhere just a little bit brighter in the back the good thing
about this background is it's out of focus and it's not too distracting like
one of the other pictures I'll show you on the screen right now is actually
Lauren in a cityscape and because she's in the cityscape and there's so much
going on it's just too much for you to process in black and white so it doesn't
look good as a black and white photo this one's got a very shallow depth of
field her eyes are looking right at you that's
the focus of the image and that's why it works in black and white so just to
recap it pretty straightforward gradient map to get your black and white make
sure your color picker is set to black and white in the background and just
click that gradient map you're going to get a lot darker and punchier black
and whites and then you just play around with the contrast
levels play around with hue/saturation mess around with some of
the you know the colors in the background it's all a preference thing I
can't tell you exactly how you want your black and whites to look but this is how
you start so my advice to you is to just get in there and get your hands dirty
play with the black-and-white see what you like so you don't like ask people
ask for a critique heck even send them to me I'll let you know how good it is I
mean not that my opinion really matters but do it fire it off I'd love to see
your work boom that's all there is to it you've got sick black and white photos
and it's super simple but just please guys make sure you do it the right way
if you liked the video hit that subscribe button and you know what if
you don't hit that subscribe button a puppy dies so we don't want puppies to
die they're too cute so just hit that subscribe button and let me see your
black-and-white photos later guys
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