Open for your interpretation

[ggroess]

Feel free to make this into anything you want....
Extra points for creativity.... 8)

Greg

[imported_ganna]

Just over 3 years ago (yes, I'm an ancient user of CM  8)) Mike had this page on  Black and White conversion through CM . Don't know if it's still there (screen shot 0001). I'm still using it and found that there's more control using the curves in RGB through CM than the sliders in PS. So, here's my B&W effort  http://www.curvemeister.com/forum/index.php/topic,1392.0.html

[ggroess]

I like it...very nice...

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Hi,

Starting in RGB, I placed a highlight on the snow on one of the branches. I then dragged the bottom of the RGB curve to increase the contrast. After saving it, I reopened the edited image in LAB to increase the saturation.

Richard

[mikemeister_admin]

Ganna,can you post it as a 300kb image?It loses  impact in a smaller size I think.GregM

[imported_ganna]

OK, will try in future :)

[mikemeister_admin]

I leaned hard on the contrast  in the brightness chanel in HSB to separate the ice flakes from the sky,then when I went to change the sky in saturation I got a B/W conversion which I was going to try anyways.Hard sharpening for the ice edges.
For the color version I started with the HSB con trast then changed to Lab for the color(file below)In a second pass in Lab I put a neutral on the ice to get a whiter white and better sky.GregM

[mikemeister_admin]

For me this is a typical B&W image. But I have no idea how to use CM for B&W. This conversion was done in Bibble with Andrea plugin. ok it is a bit special and blacks are blown but...
Regards
ThomasD

[dkrassen]

Hello

I am posting two versions of the branches in the sky image.  I used levels and curves.  I  used both in RGB mode.  It is my understanding that you can perform the same corrections in CM that you do in levels but I am not sure how to use Curves or CM in this manner.  Even my Photoshop Curves adjustment uses auto as a starting point.  I am relatively new to curves and hope this class will answer most of my questions.

Please post any suggestions.

Thank you
David Krassen

[dkrassen]

Hello,

I decided to try to adjust the tree branches image using CM, however, I believe the sky would look better bluer.  How would I make the sky bluer in CM? 

Thank you
David Krassen