Convert to black & white?

New FCE user. What's the easiest way to convert clips, or a whole project, to black and white?

Thanks Tom. It worked fine. But I do notice that the effects tab in the browser is gone? There's one tab with my project name on it, and I usually see another tab with "effects" next to the first tab, but it's no longer there. To take your advise I chose the effects "button" way up top. Have I corrupted my project somehow? Is there a way to get that effects tab back on my browser? Or does it matter? C.

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How do I convert to black & white in Layers?

I am using Scott Kelby's book Elements 6. He tells how to convert to black & white in the Layers palette. I must have something checked incorrectly. WHen I do as he writes only parts of the picture are in black and white. I have a gradient problem. I need to get the tool to the default setting.

Like Mark, I don't have the book so can only guess which method Scot Kelby is using in his tutorial.
Before you reset the took, press D to reset your tool box colors to the default black and white. You might have your tool box color chips set to colors which would result in gray being painted in the mask.
Unless the tutorial you are using gives a blend mode for the gradient tool, make sure it is in Normal blend mode.
Check if you are getting the expected results.
If not...
Reset Tool instructions can be found here:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pselements/ss/10tipspse7_9.htm
Are you dragging a gradient in a layer mask or an adjustment layer mask?
Keep in mind if you are masking: Areas with black paint will be hidden (effect... black and white in this case... will not be seen); areas in white will be revealed (effect...black and white in this case...will be displayed or shown); areas that are gray will be semi-transparent (the amount of transparent is dependent on the brightness value of the shade of gray...think feathering.)
Here's another tutorial about how to make a black and white with a splash of color:
http://www.alibony.com/pse/061608bw-convert.html
The above tutorial I have linked below uses a clipping mask/clipping group...same thing; different name. If you have PSE 9, you can just create a mask beside the black and white conversion without doing the clipping mask step(s).
If using the smart brush, there are instructions in this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3012798

How to Convert to Black & White?

I am currently using Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard Edition. I have a .pdf document that contains colored font. I want all the font to be black but nothing is working. I have tried to "print" to Adobe, selecting the Black & White option, but the color will not convert. I do not want to have to save my .pdf as another file, convert, and then re-.pdf it. Is there a way to convert to black and white within Acrobat itself?

Thanks and blessings on you.
This worked for me when the "Convert to Composite gray" did not.
My starting pdf file was cmyk and the type was a 57% black boosted with 60-70% of the other process colors. Converting to composite gray gave me a medium dark gray type, not black; and "convert colors to black" worked for the type but blasted the illustrations.
Acrobat has so many damn settings and options; you suspect there must be one that will do what you want, but trial and erroring it can be a long and frustrating process. Bless you for sharing your expertise.

Where did convert to black + white go in Acrobat DC?

Adobe Acrobat just updated to DC this morning and now I cannot find out where the convert colours tool went. I need to convert .pdfs to black+white constantly.
Does anyone know? I can't find the answer anywhere.

It's under Print Production, which is the tenth icon on the Right Hand Panel.
Then select Print Production and Convert Colors is the fourth item down the Right Hand Panel.

Copied and/or 'placed' photos auto converting to black & white

i recently upgraded to version 9. i did not have the following problem with earlier versions. when i
copy & paste and/or use the "place" option my color images are
automatically being converted from color to black and white. any suggestions on how to correct this?

Ctrl+C to copy
Then Ctrl+V to paste
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Convert color images to black&white bitmaps

Hi,
I have black&white scans of public domain books (image format). I use an OCR software to convert them to indexable PDFs (image+text format). However, the OCRed PDFs are insanely big: a 27 MB scanned PDF leads to an indexable PDF of 728 MB! And unfortunately, my OCR software doesn't have output settings, so I have to find a way to compress the files using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.
Using Advanced Options > Optimization does reduce the file size, but not significantly. The problem seems to be that my OCR software converts the black&white scans to color images, and encodes them as such inside the PDF. So I need a way to set the image modes back to black&white. I tried using the Advanced Options > Preflight dialog, and selecting "Convert to black&white". However, the resulting PDFs stay about the same size! It seems that "Convert to black&white" converts the images to grayscale, instead of to bitmap.
Any help would be appreciated!

I mentioned "bitmaps", because when I open the original PDF and right-click a random page and select "Modify image..." and open the image in Photoshop, the mode is set to "Bitmap mode": meaning 1-bit mode, containing either black or white pixels. However, when I do "Modify image..." for the OCRed PDF, the mode is set to "RGB Color Mode". I think this explains, in part, the huge size of the OCRed PDF.
Maybe this table will make it more clear:
Original PDF (Bitmap Mode, 132 dpi)
Size: 27 MB
OCRed PDF (RGB Color Mode, 300 dpi)
Size: 728 MB
Now, from the table above, it's clear that I have to reduce the image resolution. So, using the Acrobat's PDF optimizer, I tried the following settings:
Optimized OCRed PDF: Try 1 (Downsample to 132 dpi, JPEG compression)
Size: 733 MB
Optimized OCRed PDF: Try 2 (Downsample to 132 dpi, ZIP compression)
Size: 449 MB
But 449 MB is still huge for a single book. And I don't want to reduce the resolution under 132 dpi, because I will loose quality. Clearly, if the original document is just 27 MB, I should be able to squeeze the OCRed document too. But I don't know how.

Black & White and RAW

I shot some RAW images in my camera's (Olympus E-620) monochrome mode, but can only get color images when I open in Elements 9. How do I get the Black and White settings from the camera ? ( I know that I can de-saturate the color image, but shouldn't there be a B&W image from the camera ?)

As has beeen said above, the RAW image contains all of the colour information - your Olympus software will do all the convertion to Black & White.
In PSE 9, you can take the RAW image and adjust it to provide the best colour image in 8 bit mode. Then open the image in the editor and use Enhance -> Convert to Black & White.
This tutorial might be of interest
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-elements-8/getting-started-17-converting-color-t o-black-and-white/
Brian

Photoshop Elements 9 - how to highlight one colour in a black/white picture?

hi guys
with which feature can I highlight just one object (one colour) when the rest of the picture is black/white?
Thanks for your help!

Open a color image in Full Photo Edit
On the top menu click Layer >>Duplicate Layer >>OK
Enhance >>Convert To Black & White >>OK
Add a layer mask by clicking on the layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers pallet.
Select a brush and adjust its size, then make sure your foreground color is set to black.
Gently brush over the area where you want to show the color from the background layer. If you make a mistake change the foreground color to white to erase what you just did, then switch back to black again.

Black, white and colour?

Hey I'm new to Elements 10, and was wondering how to produce an image that is in black and white but, say, have a flower in colour? Much help is needed please!!

You can also do it manually. You need to duplicate your color photo. 1. Open your color photo in PSE10 Full Edit
2. On the Top menu click Layer >>Duplicate Layer >>OK
3. On the top menu click Enhance >>Convert to Black & White >>OK
4. If you can’t see the layers pallet to the right click Window >>Layers
5. At the bottom of the layers pallet click add layer mask (the icon with a small circle)
6. Make sure your foreground color is set to black then select the brush tool
7. Click the mouse over the area where you wish to reveal color and use like an eraser to reveal the background below
8. To correct errors switch the foreground color to white, then switch back to black and continue
N.B. if your brush is too big or too small you can use the square bracket keys to adjust the size up or down.
The smart brush tool involves making selections which can be more tricky than using the ordinary brush.

Creating a sharp line in a black & white photo

I have a jpg of an old family picture.
I brought the jpg into PSE 5.0 for Windows and saved it as a psd.
I did a 'Convert to Black & White' to sharpen up the picture.
Now I would like to add some notes to the picture to help identify the people who are in it. I can add text to the top margin of the picture to put the names on the image. Then I tried to use the line tool to draw a line with an arrowhead to the person. But when I drew the line I got a significant fuzzy blur to the left of my line. If I go the the Layers and change the Opacity from 100% to 0% then I can eliminate the blur. But when I do that my line changes from a solid black line to a 'hollow' line. That is, the arrowhead is no longer solid black, it is just an outline. Which tends to get lost on my black and white photo.
I've tried using the Pencil tool. I can make a nice sharp solid line with it. But, of course, my hand isn't steady enough to get a straight line. And I'd want to put an arrowhead on the end of the line anyway.
Well, any suggestions on how to get the line tool to give me what I want on this image would be great. Or, if there is a better way to identify these people I'd be happy to try that as well.
Thanks.

Thanks, Ken.
When I hold down the shift key while drawing my second and subsequent lines the new lines are drawn on the same layer as the original. With the opacity of that layer set to 0% my lines/arrows look pretty good. So I'm happy with my image. It has a background layer, several text layers and the layer with all the arrows in it. Now I try to save the psd file as a jpg. It saves ok, but all the arrows disappear. I went back to my psd file and tried some things like flattening the layers and I get the same result - the arrows are no longer visible.
If I could get the arrows to remain visible I believe this would be a fine solution for marking up my picture.
Thanks!

How can I convert RGB Color to Black-White Color?

Dear everyone!
I am using Photoshop CS5. I have got a file from my customer which is done as RGB and the resolution is 300dpi. There are black texts and color images in the file. I wish to print Black-White Process Film (1 black color), but I don't know how to solve it. I started converting my file to Grayscale and then the black texts are not black enough because it becomes lighter. When I go to Level and adjust the color, both the image and texts becomes darker. What must I do to make only texts blacker without effecting the image?
Please find the attached file for the reference.
For more information, please let me know.
My Best Regards,
LUCK

luck_lesson wrote:
...I have got a file from my customer which is done as RGB and the resolution is 300dpi. ..
What file format was supplied to you? Was it truly RGB @ 300ppi or did you rasterize a PDF?
300ppi is lousy for text. You might converse with your customer to instruct them on the ideal way to supply a file to you.

PSE Elements 9-convert to black and white not working.

I recently bought my wife a new HP computer with Windows 7 64bit and Photoshop Elements 9 to go with it. She has not had any problems up until today.. It seems when she attempts to convert a picture into black and white, photoshop freezes up. Sometimes it will convert the image but most of the time when you go to Enhance--convert to black and white, the little photo of what you want to conver that is on the right hand side of the screen just fills up with dots and then nothing appears on the work area.At that point you cannot close the application or anything else with out Ctrl.alt,delete. I have tried to change the programs compatibility to Windows Xp service pack 2 and 3 as well as running as admin but it does not fix this problem. As far as I know this only occurs when she tries to convert photos to black and white. What can we do? Is PSE9 not compatible with Windows 7 64?

Suggest that you delete preferences:
Preference settings control how Photoshop Elements displays images, cursors, and transparencies, saves files, uses plug‑ins and scratch disks, and so on. If the application exhibits unexpected behavior, the preferences file may be damaged. You can restore all preferences to their defaults.
Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift immediately after Photoshop Elements begins launching. Click Yes to delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements settings file.
A new preferences file is created the next time you start Photoshop Elements. For information on a specific preference option, search for the preference name in Help.

How convert a color PDF File to black & white (gray scale...no color)

How convert a color PDF File to black & white (gray scale...no color)??? creative cloud cs6... Acrobat etc

Hi, just wanted to add my 2¢
I've been in publishing over 25 years and live in Acrobat for making my final files. Currently with a newspaper.
This is what we do:
• Tool Panes > Print Production Window
• Select CONVERT COLORS
• Midway down under OUTPUT INTENT, check Convert Colors to Output Intent
• In the associated drop down menu, I choose (because I'm printing on newsprint) DOT GAIN 20% – If you're working on better stock, choose a lower dot gain percentage.
• Click OK – this will convert the file
• Save
Note: this affects the file you're working with. Make sure that you use this method on a COPY if you want to retain the original color version.
I think if you compare my method to the Preflight method, you'll see a tighter contrast and better blacks. I've always felt the Preflight method left continuous tones a little muddy.
Now if there was only a way to add that to ACTIONS...!

How to convert a black and white tif image to colour

I want to convert a black and white tif image to colour. I opened it in Photoshop, changed the mode to RGB colour/8, saved it as psd, but when I use the Replace Colour dialogue box, I just get my colour showing as grey-scale. What’s the correct way to proceed?
Thank you

What’s the correct way to proceed?
Joke?
In Photoshop there are often more ways than one to achieve a task and none of them need be considered »wrong« as long as the result fits the intention, so »the correct way« seems to be problematic terminology.
Anyway, one can use a Layer set to Blend Mode Color and paint on that with whatever colors.
Or one can use Solid Color Layers set to Blend Mode Color.
Or Hue/Saturation Layers …
To edit contrast if necessary Curves or Levels Adjustment Layers can be employed.
You could also have googled »photoshop colorize black and white« …

Enhance - Convert to Black and White menu Option 'issue'...?

Just an observation, more like an infuriating 'niggle'...
When I use the 'Convert to Black and White' menu option in Photoshop Elements 10, it does a good job, but it still leaves the file in RGB format (Colour)??
I am working for a Publishers, and I keep forgetting to convert the file to Grayscale after running the Wizard.
Wouldn't it have been easier to add this as an option at the end, and have they done this in Photoshop Elements 11 (or later...)??
It seems to me to be something that you'd expect the package to do...???
Lee Cooke

No, this option isn't part of convert to black and white anywhere, since it's not something you normally want to do because it greatly limits what else you can do to your photo (many tools and commands are only available for RGB photos). I realize that in your particular situation it's an annoyance, but although I think adobe makes a lot of goofy decisions, I can see why they chose not to do that here.

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