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Portraits with a silhouette twist
Connected Photographer Magazine - February 2008
One of the first lessons many beginning photographers learn is to avoid taking pictures of people when they're standing in front of windows. Of course, another lesson many of us learn is there's a time and place to break the rules. In this fun article, Jorge Sosa shows you how and when to use the power of darkness (MUHAHAHA!) to create eye-catching silhouette portraits.

We're going to Disneyworld with Photoshop CS3's Black & White filter
Connected Photographer Magazine - September 2007
Adobe Photoshop CS3 has a neat new feature. It's an adjustment called Black & White and it works quite nicely as an adjustment layer. What's neat is this new feature gives you a lot more control over black and white images than you ever had by just desaturating or converting an image to grayscale.

A free program for creating black and white effects
Connected Photographer Magazine - April 2006
One of the wonderful things about the world of software is that there are often free ways to accomplish what you want without spending money. Certainly, some of the commercial products might give you more control and options, but they're often harder to use as well. In this continuation of our Budget Photo Secrets series, we look at a free tool that creates black and white effects.

Using channels to get the best black and white from your color images
Connected Photographer Magazine - February 2005
Over the past month or so, we've been talking more and more about creating black and white photographs from color originals. While you can certainly desaturate an image, one of our favorite techniques is to choose among the various color channels and use the best-looking channel as the basis for a black and white image. Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz describes how that's done in this article.

Save bad photos by converting them to black and white
Connected Photographer Magazine - January 2005
Not everyone has the eye for black and white photography. A recent visit to his sister's house showed Senior Editor James Booth that ordinary color images can be converted to black and white, with the result being stunning artistic pictures. In this week's photo tip, James shows you how to convert your color images to black and white to create those works of art.

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