Photoshop Plug-In Tutorial - Black & White Studio

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  Jan Esmann

PowerRetouche is a professional pack of Photoshop plugins (for Mac and Windows), that will help you solve even the most thorny problems of digital photography. They will also make your life with Photoshop much easier and more enjoyable. In all there are 20 plugins designed each to solve a specific problem or manage a specific task with ease. Some are very extensive, others simple, but all very intuitive to use. Tutorial - Master digital black and white conversion This Photoshop plugin turns Photoshop into a digital darkroom for black and white. Use the light sensitivity of films (Tri-X, etc) for exact grayscale conversion and contrast editing. Multigrade, exposure stops and colored lens-filters have been EXACTLY copied in this digital darkroom. Our plugin photo software takes digital black and white photography to new levels and leaves nothing of the old darkroom behind. Power Retouche Photoshop plugins are also for Paint Shop Pro, Corel Draw, Illustrator, Fireworks and other graphic software or photo software for photo editing, retouching and restoration (Mac & Win). Benefits of the plugin - Black & White Studio plugin - A black and white photography digital darkroom. - Light sensitivity of professional films (Kodak Tri-X, T-MAX, etc.) preset. - Define your own light sensitivity curves - and save them for later. - Color-filters (like camera-filters: yellow, orange, etc.). - Multigrade range 00 to 5 - with an extra step at each end. - Exposure equivalent to f-stops. - Highlight and shadow control. - Zone adjustments - three zones available with eyedroppers and zone width option. The Black & White Studio plugin works with these image modes (Windows and Mac)... 8, 16. 48 & 64 bit: RGB, Grayscale, Duotone, CMYK. Black & White Studio controls This is the Black and White Studio plugins control panel at one third size. Actually the plugin has so many filter options, that we had to arrange them on two "pages" in the win version and on three in the Mac version You change "page" with a click. The plugin has four groups of filter-controls: Lens-filters = Colored lensfilters, like yellow, orange, etc. Film = Film spectral sensitivity w. preset films. Print = Multigrade, exposure, contrast, etc. Zones = Three selectable and adjustable zones. Example - The plugins T400CN filter The plugin has algorithms to convert colors to black & white with the light-sensitivity of professional films. It has the most popular films from Kodak, Ilford and Agfa.