The "Gradient Formula" for Dramatic Black & Whites! - Photoshop Tutorial

Make Amazingly Dramatic Black and White Conversions Using the Power of Gradient Maps in Photoshop! In this lesson, we will learn how to precisely control the black and white levels across the entire luminosity range of your photo with Gradient Maps. Besides, we will explore several essential tricks along the way to add more drama and dimension. Right from "2-Slider Camera Raw Trick" to controlling the luminosity of every color and even blending the image with a black background, we have lots of fun things to learn. I hope you enjoy this video; thank you so much for watching :)
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00:00 Creating B&W Images with Gradient Map
00:51 Comparison with Black and White Adjustment Layer
01:16 Advanced Gradient Controls
02:54 Color Control Trick
04:07 Another Example
04:47 Don't Forget to Fix the Eyes!
05:34 Black Background & Blending
06:55 Fixing the Beard Hair Mask
07:24 Camera Raw Techniques
09:21 Outro and Summary
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@@robotninjayt invert the image and mask out everything except the beard

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Ooooooh! I love this, Unmesh! I knew gradient maps had even more untapped power, but this is awesome!! :D I haven't done much photo editing/manipulation for a while, but I wanna try! Even with noisy images. ;)

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I watched this video on Monday and filed it away in my mind for future reference. Today one of Thailand's greatest actors, Sorapong Chatree, died. It is tradition here to post photos of people who have died in black-and-white, so I used this technique to convert a photo I took with him during the only film we worked on together. The result was far better than how I would have done it before, by simply desaturating and adjusting the curves. I just wanted to thank you for this very timely tutorial.

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Love it! Speaking of Gradients..How about a short on what "Smoothness" actually means in the world of photoshop. When applying gradients, the smoothness option has the effect of changing the transition of Color 1 to color 2 in a way that seems 'non-linear'.. Can you explain what this is actually doing to the values of pixels?? Thank you!!

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I generally use channel mixer and curves for conversion, it allows me to control the way that this is applied. But, this looks cool.

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