Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching

Overview

“In this lesson, we will continue to know the limits of our printer, but this time, I will teach you how to design a medium gray grid that will help you find the right tones for printing the image. ”

In this video lesson Cristian Maturana Ortiz addresses the topic: The middle gray in the printer, which is part of the Domestika online course: Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching. Achieve total control over the tonal range and learn how to capture, retouch, and print your photos.

Partial transcription of the video

“The middle gray in the printer In this lesson we will see the adjustment of the midtones of the image to have a good control over the printer and a good result. For that we will make a grid, this time of medium gray. The method is similar, the dimensions are the same. 18 by 12. But this time we will work on a medium gray background. We will make a first layer that we will paint in a medium tone. We will choose in its brightness 50%, which would be the same Than work on 128 over 256 each channel. But we will work through the luminosity, 50%. With this color we are going to paint the layer an...”

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Course summary for: Black and White Photography: Digital Editing and Retouching

• Level: Beginner
• 95% positive reviews (107)
• 3177 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 29m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Digital Photography, Film Photography, Photo Retouching, Photography