{"id":10,"date":"2008-09-27T23:15:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/newsite\/?p=10"},"modified":"2019-04-13T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T15:46:57","slug":"fade-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/newsite\/photo-editing\/black-and-white-tutorials\/fade-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast, High Quality Black and White Conversions In Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
Written by Steve Patterson.<\/div>\n

In this Photoshop tutorial<\/strong>, we'll look at an easy way to get fast yet high quality black and white conversions out of our color photos. Normally, for high quality black and white results, we'd use something like the Lab color mode<\/strong><\/a>, the Channel Mixer<\/strong><\/a>, or a Hue\/Saturation adjustment layer<\/a><\/strong>, and if all we cared about was quickly removing the color from a photo regardless of image quality, we'd simply desaturate the color<\/a><\/strong> or convert the image to the Grayscale color mode<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

In this tutorial, we're going to combine that same desaturation technique, which normally gives us less than stellar results, with a couple of short extra steps to give us much better results with our black and white conversions while adding only a few extra seconds to the time it takes!\n<\/p>\n

Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial:<\/p>\n\"A\n

The original image.<\/div>\n

Let's convert it to black and white. For even more black and white conversion techniques, be sure to check out our complete Converting Color Photos To Black And White In Photoshop<\/a><\/strong> series. <\/p>\n