From Oz to Kansas · Almost Every Black and White Conversion Technique Known to Man by Versace, Vincent -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Acknowledgements Contents Foreword Preface: About Beginnings & the Scope of This Book

What This Book Is Not What This Book Is

First Words: The Pleasure of Creativity

Why Create? Hardening of the Categories If You Have a Minute, Tell Me Everything You Know From Imperfection Perfection Grows Traveling at the Speed of Life Memorizing a Dictionary Does Not Mean You Have Something To Say Home Run Hitting 101

Chapter 1. The Black and White on All of the Gray Areas of Black and White

Coming to Terms Desaturation: Why You Should Not Desaturation: When You Should Believing Is Seeing: The Way the Eye “Sees” What it Saw

Chapter 2. Variations on a Theme

Film and Filter: Three Approaches Approach One: The Classic Film and Filter Approach Two: Neo-Classic Film and Filter Approach Three: Neo-Neo-Classic Film and Filter–Yet Another Variation on a Theme Why Knowing This Matters

Chapter 3. Defying Logic

The Camera & the RAW File In Camera Conversion In RAW Processor Conversions To Begin the Beguine Conclusion

Chapter 4. Defying Reason

The Black and White on Convert to Grayscale The Black and White on Split Channel Conversions The Black and White on Lab Color Space Conversions The Black and White on Equalizing Lab The Bottom Line

Chapter 5. Somewhere Over the Grayscale

The Black & White Adjustment Layer Basics The Black and White on Using the Black & White Adjustment for Color Conclusion

Chapter 6. The Black and White on the Zone System

Zoning in on the Zone System What You See Is What Will Take You

Chapter 7. The Black and White on the Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer

Chapter 8. The Black and White on Silver Efex Pro 2

Last Words: From There to Here—Where We Are on the RGB Road Afterword Index Add Page