I always reference these guys cause they are my favorite by far....

The Image is Found... if you look on their blog they have some black and whites that almost have a silver quality to them, its kind of hard to explain

I will attach a photo solely for reference ( I dunno if i shouldn't do this or not!)


Anybody have any ideas to achieve this tone of black and white?

I would probably recommend attaching a link to the image - rather than the image - unless you ask permission.

Anyway, it can be achieved a number of ways from unique color gradient maps, to color fills set to different blend modes, to duotone conversions.

designaglow also has a b&w set. one of the ones included has a silver look. i use it frequently and love it.

I too am looking for a really good one. A really strong silver/platinum look without blowing highlights...

Do you have a link for where to buy this action? I tried doing a Google search but couldn't find it.

Here you go! I love all their stuff!

Design Aglow

Thanks for the link, Lori! They have some fun stuff. And it's affordable, too!

yep, just got several sets of their actions!

Does anyone have a sample of the silver finish b&w that I can see?

Wooooah... their marketing and sales tools look outstanding!

I have used quite a bit of DesignAGlow's stuff- no complaints here so far. I LOVE THEM. And you don't have to wait 24-48 hours to get your download once you purchase. You get it right when you send off your payment by paypal

Thomas Niemann's Tones has very nice silver and platnium as well as others. Great price [free] on atncentral.

http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm#BW_Conv

I love the image is found's b&w as well and would be interested in how people thought they were processeing them

especially the new ones that they posted this week...how are they blowing out highlights and retaining detail?

the new ones have an 'embossed' look to them, where you use a layer copy with soft light blending and run a high pass filter...not sure but thats what it looks like to me

I know they supposedly use TRA but I'm sure there's more to it...any ideas??

yes, its beautiful. i love it (sheer silver):

Maybe I'm not understanding what you're talking about, but I think that part of it is adding a little bit of warmth to the shadows of the image. I do it on almost all of my BW conversions in Lightroom - I find standard B&W conversions to look too cold.

Forgive me if this is totally not on the right track, but here's an example. It probably has just a bit too much orange to look "silvery", but if I'd reduced the amount of warmth a bit I think it would be similar to what you're talking about:

http://www.kenkienow.com/graphics/hosting/...arrett-7554.jpg

Ken,

It looks good. I just tried this in lightroom -- what I did was do a grayscale conversion, adjust the different tones (orange, blue, aqua) etc. to taste, then in the Split Toning category, I put the shadow amount up only like 6-10, and then the saturation at like 3 or 4...this provides very subtle warmth to the shadows...

Is this how you are doing it?

Sorta. I'm just doing the standard grayscale conversion, and then adding a hue of 47 in the split toning section to the shadows, with a saturation of about 30. You might want to try a lower saturation, though, to avoid looking too sepia.

Here's the 47/30 combo:

http://www.kenkienow.com/Hunter-7167.jpg