From Oz to Kansas

Learn the best ways to convert your color images into stunning, fine-art quality black and white photographs!
Almost Every Black and White Technique Known to Man!
- The definitive book on black and white photography from a fine art master photographer.
- Vincent Versace is an award-winning photographer whose work is included in the Smithsonian's permanent collection.
- Covers Photoshop and crucial black and white plug-in, Nik's Silver Efex Pro

Black and white conversion techniques are like politicians making election promises: they all claim to be the penultimate solution to your needs. Regardless of their claims, you still need to create images that look like photographs and not like something the viewer sees as 'something you did in Photoshop.' There are numerous ways to convert an image from color to hues of gray. Vincent Versace will show you how to accomplish this without ever leaving the RGB color space. You will learn which methods give you the best results and when to choose a simple or a complex solution. Different images have different needs as they are converted to black and white, and Vincent covers them all in his quest to create amazing, timeless black and white images--and teaches the reader how to do the same. From Oz to Kansas includes coverage of Adobe Photoshop and Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro. Vincent explores all the options in Photoshop for converting color images to black and white, and discusses the merits of each, including when one conversion technique is more appropriate than another. Master black and white fine art photographer, Photoshop expert, and master printer Vincent Versace delivers the book that fans and readers have long been waiting for: a comprehensive reference and set of tutorials covering the best ways to convert color images into stunning black and white photographs.