Focus Effect - Black & White Part 2
Software : Photoshop CS3
Level : Advance

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Open Photoshop. Open the image saved in the last lesson where the selection is copied as new layer.

2. Select the background layer.

Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Black & White

Click OK. Don't change any settings at this stage.

3. Double click on layer thumbnail (white circle marked) to open the Black and White dialogue box again.

4. Change the settings to make the background darker.

5. Double click on layer thumbnail (white circle marked) to open the Black and White dialogue box again and this time select 'Infrared" from the preset drop down menu.

6. Try to experiment using black and white dialogue box settings. This time we have selected "Maximum Black " option.

7. This effect is achieved using "Neutral Density" option.

8. We will try more effects in the next lesson.