For the Book Club B&W challenge, I processed this basketball shot as black and white with high contrast, just as I would have done back in my newspaper days. I resisted putting into halftone dots! LOL! There is one problem with B&W, you can't tell the black team from the dark green team.
You are the second person I know doing this. I just don't feel ready to do a whole month of bw. Maybe next year. Fun to look at what each of the boys is doing. Excitement, boredom, all there.
@digitalrn@twr Thanks! @archaeofrog Maybe for Thursday, I'll throwback to this in a halftone or do another pic as halftone and go back to my roots! @joansmor They were also tired. We only had 7 boys show up for the game, so my son played the whole game except for part of the last quarter. He got his elbow bent backwards some, so he had to come out for a while. They got crushed.
@homeschoolmom I bet I've asked you this before. What editing program do you use? If you can add a filter after you convert to B&W or fiddle with the greens channel, you might be able to make the jersies different.
@therubysusan I have Picasa and Photoshop Elements 12 on my computer. I never thought about trying to make them look different in editing. Problem was, they were hard to tell apart in person. Not a smart move to pick black, very dark blue and very dark green. Almost can't tell them apart on the court.
In the editor in PSE 12, try New Adjustment Layer>hue/saturation> open up the drop down menu next to the default, "master," and play with the sliders. It will give you Reds, yellows, greens, blues, cyans, and magenta to play with, and to really fine tune it, you can do a separate adjustment layer for each one and then "flatten image" when you're satisfied and save as a jpeg. If you save the unflattened image as a psd, you can even go back and tinker later if you change your mind about the final result.
I try to write down where the slider was before I start moving it, so I can put it back just where it was if it doesn't seem to make a difference/ messes up the picture when I fiddle with it.
I don't know if Editor will let you do that after you convert but if you can "see" the tones you should be able to get them where you want them in the color version and then convert.
@archaeofrog Maybe for Thursday, I'll throwback to this in a halftone or do another pic as halftone and go back to my roots!
@joansmor They were also tired. We only had 7 boys show up for the game, so my son played the whole game except for part of the last quarter. He got his elbow bent backwards some, so he had to come out for a while. They got crushed.
I try to write down where the slider was before I start moving it, so I can put it back just where it was if it doesn't seem to make a difference/ messes up the picture when I fiddle with it.