The photographer's black & white handbook : making and processing stunning digital black and white photos / Harold Davis.

Harold Davis is a professional photographer and digital artist whose work is widely collected. He is the author of many bestselling photography books, including Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer, Creating HDR Photos, Photographing Flowers, The Photoshop Darkroom, and The Way of the Digital Photographer. According to Rangefinder Magazine, "Harold is a man of astonishing eclectic skills and accomplishments." Harold is a Zeiss Lens Ambassador and has been recognized as a Moab Master for his handcrafted fine-art prints. He is a popular workshop leader.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Seeing in black & white -- Why black and white? -- Storm over Sainte-Croix-de-Beaumont -- Contemplating a cloudy sky -- Pre-visualizing -- Workflow: from color to black and white -- Content management system (CMS) overview -- Color to black and white workflow -- Finding black & white -- Your path to black and white -- The American west -- Pre-visualizing black & white using the camera -- The black and white composition -- Using negative space -- Framing -- Patterns -- High Key and Low Key -- Contrast and shades of gray -- Black and white at night -- People in black and white -- Converting to B&W -- Your black and white workflow -- Dispatches from the land of the rising sun -- Black and white conversion: effort vs quality -- JPED vs RAW -- Effort vs quality -- Black and white conversion in Adobe camera RAW (ACR) -- Black and white in Lightroom -- Lightroom: basic black & white treatment -- Lightroom: HSL / color / B&W tab -- Lightroom: black & white presets -- Black and white in photoshop -- Photoshop: basic conversions -- Photoshop: using the channel mixer -- Photoshop: black & white adjustments -- Nik Silver Efex Pro -- Topaz B&W effects -- Perfect B&W -- Onward and upward -- Extending tonal range -- From color to black & white -- Multi-RAW processing via Lightroom -- Multi-RAW processing with Adobe camera RAW -- Multiple layers and masking in photoshop -- Extending contrast and range in photoshop -- Blending modes -- LAB color for contrast enhancement -- Bracketed sequence photography -- Monochromatic HDR presets -- The photoshop layer stack as gold standard for black and white conversion -- Creative B&W effects -- Finishing the image -- Lighting and monochromatic photos -- High key -- Low key -- Toning, tinting, and split toning -- Tinting using a photoshop Black & White adjustment layer -- Toning and split toning using Nik, On1, and topaz -- Split toning using color range selection in photoshop -- Selective color and hand painting -- Soft and selective focus -- Pinhole camera effect -- LAB inversions -- Solarization -- Solarization using double LAB inversions -- Solarization using curve adjustments -- Photoshop solarize filter -- Nik color Efex pro solarization filter -- Simulated infrared -- Simulated IR using photoshop black & white adjustment layer -- IR simulation with Nik color Efex pro -- Artful black and white effects with topaz -- Antiquem vintage, and film effects -- Borders -- Making black and white prints -- Resources and software -- Glossary -- Index -- Photo locations

The Photographer's Black & White Handbook is your complete guide to making and processing stunning black and white photos in the digital era. You ll find inspiration, ideas, techniques, and tools to use in your black and white photography, along with a soup-to-nuts workflow to take you from black and white pre-visualization through capture and post-production. Along the way you will lean over Harold's shoulder as he travels to exciting photo destinations and creates stunning black and white imagery, explaining his creative and technical processes as he goes. How to see in black and white Pre-visualization in digital photography Understanding black and white composition How to create your own black and white workflow Black and white in ACR, Lightroom, and Photoshop Using black and white plug-ins including Nik Silver Efex Pro and Topaz B&W Effects Extending tonal range with multi-RAW processing and monochromatic HDR Post-production techniques for working with dynamic range Creative black and white special effects Find out how to tone, tint, colorize, solarize, and simulate IR Work with LAB to create unique black and white effects Great tools for unleashing your photographic imagination Beautiful photographs by Harold Davis chosen to inspire and guide you.