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Take control of your monochrome conversions with Photoshop’s Black and White command

One of the most effective ways to convert your image to monochrome is with a Black and White command. As you’d expect, the command removes colour to give you a monochrome result. But it’s the way the colour is removed that’s so clever. The settings offer six colour sliders that let you control the brightness of different colour ranges during the conversion. So you could, for example, darken the blues for a dramatic sky or increase the oranges to give skin tones a lift. As well as offering these six colour sliders, there’s also a useful hand icon that allows you to make on-image adjustments to colour brightness. The Black and White command can be applied directly to an image layer, but using it as an adjustment layer gives you…

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