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Black and White images have been neglected ever since the introduction of colour into film photography, due to the fact that colour is ‘best’ and what we see (colour) is the true beauty of a scene/object. As this is the case now, whenever black and white images are created it is perceived as a kind of artistic aesthetic that the photographer has wanted to achieve and considering colour is the norm now, this photograph is viewed in a different light and more of an artists creation rather than the representative. So, I hope to get you more creative in experimenting with your photographs with these easy Black and White conversion processes! So, in this photograph I have blackened the sky by decreasing the Blue Channel, and intensified the brightness of the orange/red sand by sliding the Red Channel right and kept the Green Channel in a similar spot to the Red:
Making Photographs Black & White in GIMP | Scott Photographics | Free Photography & Graphic Design Resources
GIMP Portable | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives
image editing on the go GIMP Portable is the popular GIMP for Windows image editor packaged as a portable app , so you can take your images with you and do your editing on the go. The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
