Converting to Black and White

How to get those nice looking Black and White pictures that you remember from analogue film?

Using Photoshop to convert photo's to Black & White is certainly possible. If you're a dummy you just convert it to grayscale.

You can find more sophisticated ways on the net too, using the Channel Mixer for example.

Taking it even further, you can download some incredibly actions here.

However, my tip of the day is to download Nik Color Efex Pro 2. The results are quit amazing. It's a Photoshop plug-in so you can include it into you Photoshop batch scripts.

Check out an example with Nik Color (top) and with the Channel Mixer (60,40,0) in Photoshop. The channel mixer produces grayscales rather then black and white. It's not the same as making the contrast higher.