From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes

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Creating custom black-and-white effects with the On Image tool

Creating custom black-and-white effects with the On Image tool - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes

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Creating custom black-and-white effects with the On Image tool

- Photoshop offers a very compelling black and white adjustment layer. But to get the results that you want, you should take advantage of the on image tool. You learned about this tool earlier when we looked at curves. Well, let's see how it can actually work as well for black and white adjustments. Let's explore techniques to create black and white images with the on image tool. Now I've got two images here. One is the N state and one is a starting image that you'll work with. Now the N state just shows you how things came together. And it starts with a black and white conversion followed by a pattern fill for some texture, and then a gradient fill which is just being used here to create a bit of a vignette. Let me show you how this works. Let's start with a black and white adjustment layer. Now by default, there are some useful presets for the black and white adjustment layer and you can choose these to control how the black and white conversion occurs. And of course, you can move…

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