The "Gradient Formula" for Dramatic Black & Whites! - Photoshop Tutorial

Make Amazingly Dramatic Black and White Conversions Using the Power of Gradient Maps in Photoshop! In this lesson, we will learn how to precisely control the black and white levels across the entire luminosity range of your photo with Gradient Maps. Besides, we will explore several essential tricks along the way to add more drama and dimension. Right from "2-Slider Camera Raw Trick" to controlling the luminosity of every color and even blending the image with a black background, we have lots of fun things to learn. I hope you enjoy this video; thank you so much for watching :)
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00:00 Creating B&W Images with Gradient Map
00:51 Comparison with Black and White Adjustment Layer
01:16 Advanced Gradient Controls
02:54 Color Control Trick
04:07 Another Example
04:47 Don't Forget to Fix the Eyes!
05:34 Black Background & Blending
06:55 Fixing the Beard Hair Mask
07:24 Camera Raw Techniques
09:21 Outro and Summary
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  • @chrispascual7896
    @chrispascual78962 жыл бұрын

    “Remember we are creating art!” Great quote. Often times photographers get stuck on rules or trapped into possible critiques of over blown under exposed. Thanks for what you do, amazing.

  • @PiXimperfect

    @PiXimperfect

    2 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely! Couldn't agree more. We get so caught up in the technical aspects of it.

  • @robotninjayt

    @robotninjayt

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PiXimperfect hi Umesh please make a video on how to make white beard hair into black

  • @ankanpurkait

    @ankanpurkait

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@robotninjayt invert the image and mask out everything except the beard

  • @elmono3939

    @elmono3939

    Жыл бұрын

    Well put

  • @ore192
    @ore1922 жыл бұрын

    To all those learning photoshop, I really recommend this channel because he always explain everything he does in all of his tutorials.

  • @ZeroDean

    @ZeroDean

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've been using Photoshop since v2.5 and I always learn new things or approaches from this channel. Always recommended. 👌🏻

  • @TitioPlay

    @TitioPlay

    2 жыл бұрын

    And without futher ado he does teach

  • @johnnyboy8147

    @johnnyboy8147

    2 жыл бұрын

    Been here since 2018, most of what I know is from his channel

  • @drumarks6638
    @drumarks66382 жыл бұрын

    You've done it again...this process is more involved than the one I currently use, but the results are dramatic. Back into my catalog and rework some photos. Thanks for all your hard work in putting these tutorials together.

  • @Z-Diode
    @Z-Diode2 жыл бұрын

    Without any doubt you‘re one of the most skilled and constructive Photoshop gurus. 🙌

  • @ayeoner
    @ayeoner2 жыл бұрын

    What an excellent tutorial. Thank you for being a great instructor! 🙏🏾🙌🏾📸

  • @carolyn9996
    @carolyn9996 Жыл бұрын

    You are the absolute best teacher of photoshop...clear, and easy. Thank you, Unmesh!

  • @mzrspa
    @mzrspa2 жыл бұрын

    Your tutorials are simple and amazing!

  • @ShaudaySmith
    @ShaudaySmith2 жыл бұрын

    PiXimperfect is a global treasure. this is a simple and effective tutorial. Love your friendly voice too.

  • @MichaelZ3
    @MichaelZ32 жыл бұрын

    You know, you just keep getting better and better! This was an EXCELLENT tutorial!

  • @ianbullphoto1
    @ianbullphoto12 жыл бұрын

    Unmesh you are AMAZING! I have a feeling you have changed the way I will be doing B&W from now on, thank you.

  • @rishibhingare
    @rishibhingare2 жыл бұрын

    this was simple and i really needed such trick for one of my projects . Thanks Unmesh !!

  • @RobertHamm
    @RobertHamm2 жыл бұрын

    I have learned so much from you over the years. Thank you for your great videos and attitude.

  • @thelberg62
    @thelberg622 жыл бұрын

    Amazing tutorial - again! Thank you so much :)

  • @nabiln.2923
    @nabiln.2923 Жыл бұрын

    YOUR SIMPLY A BEAST ! I learned a lot, the sumary in the end is always very convinient !

  • @mellotron_scratch
    @mellotron_scratch2 жыл бұрын

    Unmesh i've learn from you so much! You are doing the best job at explaining every single detail.

  • @farnoush367
    @farnoush367 Жыл бұрын

    hands down the best video

  • @jbetz78
    @jbetz78 Жыл бұрын

    ALWAYS AMAZING! Learning about tools I have never used before! Thank you

  • @arnetrautmann9783
    @arnetrautmann97832 жыл бұрын

    The most useful thing - and you say it a lot (good!): "organization is important". Good advise!

  • @shmuelaryehkoltov241
    @shmuelaryehkoltov2412 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing, thanks for sharing your knowledge, it fits perfectly for my style of editing :)

  • @Bevlyn20
    @Bevlyn2011 ай бұрын

    Thank you for that and I am going to have to replay and replay that to learn it properly. Just the trouble with being old! So good to know you can do this without having to buy expensive plugins.

  • @aliciatavizon001
    @aliciatavizon001 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing video - thank you 🙏🏼

  • @BestAudiovisualTricks
    @BestAudiovisualTricks2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! You are a genius! God bless you my friend! 🏆

  • @ThatSpadeGirl
    @ThatSpadeGirl2 жыл бұрын

    YES! Love this! So much quicker and realistic! Thank you! And that's a great shot of that person!

  • @Cre8tiveWoman

    @Cre8tiveWoman

    2 жыл бұрын

    ADMIN HERE: Thanks for your great feedback and support on Patreon. It's because of kind members like you that PiXimperfect is able to keep creating!

  • @sergioBacoCalderon
    @sergioBacoCalderon2 жыл бұрын

    excellent content, as always! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank You!

  • @tomdupuis8466
    @tomdupuis84662 жыл бұрын

    You have out done yourself on this one! Best black and white EVER!!!

  • @sathya_offcl
    @sathya_offcl2 жыл бұрын

    Always creative❤️🙌🏻

  • @hygravity
    @hygravity2 жыл бұрын

    Great video, simple but very effective.

  • @WaterShowsProd
    @WaterShowsProd2 жыл бұрын

    I watched this video on Monday and filed it away in my mind for future reference. Today one of Thailand's greatest actors, Sorapong Chatree, died. It is tradition here to post photos of people who have died in black-and-white, so I used this technique to convert a photo I took with him during the only film we worked on together. The result was far better than how I would have done it before, by simply desaturating and adjusting the curves. I just wanted to thank you for this very timely tutorial.

  • @CentaurusRelax314
    @CentaurusRelax3142 жыл бұрын

    1) You're fantastic. 2) This is incredible. I've been a photographer for a long time, and have used Photoshop since v1, but never would have known about this. 3) Thank you.

  • @ByteDreams
    @ByteDreams2 жыл бұрын

    Love this! Thank you!♥

  • @chrisburnard5157
    @chrisburnard5157 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, brilliant learning and content.

  • @skystudio3160
    @skystudio31602 жыл бұрын

    This was a very detailed and well explained, easy tutorial. Thank you so much!

  • @PiXimperfect

    @PiXimperfect

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for watching :)

  • @SwissplWatches
    @SwissplWatches2 жыл бұрын

    You are amazing. Thank you!

  • @paulald2004
    @paulald20042 жыл бұрын

    I love this! Thank you so very much!

  • @subramanyack588
    @subramanyack5882 жыл бұрын

    Awesome, powerful !! Thanks a lot

  • @lenalena1675
    @lenalena16752 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!!! Just love you❤️❤️❤️

  • @dongproductions8825
    @dongproductions88252 жыл бұрын

    Voice over is PERFECT Tnx for this another tutorials sir ...

  • @anjanakarannagoda5224
    @anjanakarannagoda5224 Жыл бұрын

    Thank A lot Im searching for this

  • @lalitboruah8122
    @lalitboruah81222 жыл бұрын

    Uff i was extremely waiting for this type of video boss

  • @eddybabe7963
    @eddybabe79632 жыл бұрын

    Superb. For decades photoshop has amazed me. thanks for posting.

  • @PiXimperfect

    @PiXimperfect

    2 жыл бұрын

    It surely is mysterious! Thanks for watching :)

  • @jazzew
    @jazzew2 жыл бұрын

    Ooooooh! I love this, Unmesh! I knew gradient maps had even more untapped power, but this is awesome!! :D I haven't done much photo editing/manipulation for a while, but I wanna try! Even with noisy images. ;)

  • @ahmadshalabi979
    @ahmadshalabi9792 жыл бұрын

    Amazing thanks

  • @DougRawady
    @DougRawady2 жыл бұрын

    Awesome tutorial!

  • @2020Viision
    @2020Viision2 жыл бұрын

    I was your 1000th like on this vid! I’m so galas to call you my mentor. Great job.

  • @TheUnholyPosole
    @TheUnholyPosole2 жыл бұрын

    You're really good at making tutorials.

  • @jozsibartalis533
    @jozsibartalis5332 жыл бұрын

    coincidentally or not, today I'm looking for topics about conversion to black and white and here's what I find out.thank you for everyting you mare!

  • @hamiltonsilvester0307
    @hamiltonsilvester03072 жыл бұрын

    Simplesmente sensacional !

  • @chrisscarffe7416
    @chrisscarffe74162 жыл бұрын

    Very useful. Thanks 😊

  • @stevew7779
    @stevew77792 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!

  • @wizualnie.odpowiedzialny
    @wizualnie.odpowiedzialny Жыл бұрын

    Great! Thank you.

  • @dishevela
    @dishevela Жыл бұрын

    amazing thank you

  • @baharam98
    @baharam98 Жыл бұрын

    Very helpful tips. Thank you. My B and W images look so much better using the methods in this video.

  • @taranjeetsingh057
    @taranjeetsingh0572 жыл бұрын

    Bug fan sir 😍😍 love you classes ❤️❤️

  • @hilleviupmanis8687
    @hilleviupmanis8687 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @chrispennarts4085
    @chrispennarts40853 ай бұрын

    Awesome!!!!

  • @NattyUltimates
    @NattyUltimates2 жыл бұрын

    This is something I wanted to learn for my pic

  • @jorgefiocchi
    @jorgefiocchi2 жыл бұрын

    Excelente!!! Muchas Gracias por compartir tu conocimiento. Me interesa el Blanco y Negro más dramático. Y con este video aprendí Mucho. Muchas Gracias! Saludos desde la Ciudad de Rosario, en Argentina! Giorgio.

  • @vince-1337
    @vince-13372 жыл бұрын

    As a chiaroscuro painting addict, this is an insane and easy way to do it. Thanx so much, mate !

  • @akkasbashy
    @akkasbashy2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much dear Master.

  • @SmallSpoonBrigade
    @SmallSpoonBrigade2 жыл бұрын

    I generally use channel mixer and curves for conversion, it allows me to control the way that this is applied. But, this looks cool.

  • @queenwhite4831
    @queenwhite48312 жыл бұрын

    3:15 just blew my mind (after 15 years of Photoshop...). Thank you!!

  • @monish05m

    @monish05m

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah seriously, after 10 years of PS I just learned that black and white has other uses.

  • @sirpatmcc
    @sirpatmcc2 жыл бұрын

    Another great video. You are a genius.

  • @gashead2
    @gashead22 жыл бұрын

    Great thanks

  • @sharmansatyakumar5596
    @sharmansatyakumar55962 жыл бұрын

    thanks sir

  • @sudipmajumdar247
    @sudipmajumdar24711 ай бұрын

    your presentation is so good , that any adjective is less to describe but the presentation if done more slowly then a novice can also e nrich himself more, awaiting mor e wonderful videos more as they have enriched us as ever before.

  • @chnoyonhld786
    @chnoyonhld7862 жыл бұрын

    The Extreme qualified Photoshop Master.

  • @cherylconnor2282
    @cherylconnor22822 жыл бұрын

    I am new to PS and your tutorials are ace. Thanks so much

  • @easylearnandfun2812
    @easylearnandfun28122 жыл бұрын

    💖💖💖 amazing💖💖

  • @jrbling25
    @jrbling252 жыл бұрын

    Love it! Speaking of Gradients..How about a short on what "Smoothness" actually means in the world of photoshop. When applying gradients, the smoothness option has the effect of changing the transition of Color 1 to color 2 in a way that seems 'non-linear'.. Can you explain what this is actually doing to the values of pixels?? Thank you!!

  • @gonzagasantos2290
    @gonzagasantos22902 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Unmesh Dinda, simply amazing, thank you.

  • @marclabro
    @marclabro2 жыл бұрын

    super tuto !

  • @xoverpalm
    @xoverpalm2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, u r the best ! 💯

  • @jaderobertson7694
    @jaderobertson76942 жыл бұрын

    Love from west London

  • @myticas
    @myticas Жыл бұрын

    PiXimperfect is high end! Why? 1st: His tutorials deliver high worthy content by every second. No frills, no blabla ... 2nd: Although he speaks faster and faster over the years his enunciation remained excellent and easy to understand. 3rd: Every tutorial is designed at a top didactical level. 4th: He combines all the before mentioned qualities to an outstanding overall performance thus underlining the main content statements in an acting way.

  • @jasonlacey5979

    @jasonlacey5979

    Жыл бұрын

    The fact that he speaks so fast has always kept me away from his excellent content.. great shame because as you say he delivers high worthy content. Guess he has enough subsribers to not care any more..

  • @ronniesilverio
    @ronniesilverio2 жыл бұрын

    Great Video😍

  • @nabeelmehmoodfreelacer
    @nabeelmehmoodfreelacer2 жыл бұрын

    I recommended everyone to learn from this channel & Pinterest.

  • @protoping
    @protoping2 жыл бұрын

    this video is so important

  • @MrBruceRoyal
    @MrBruceRoyal2 жыл бұрын

    This is genius, I appreciate this vid

  • @videocasetteTV
    @videocasetteTV2 жыл бұрын

    The way you are explaining is more than diamonds you are awesome,, kindly may you create tutorials about creating poster and flyers because all other tuts on KZread with a music background without voiceover, thanks in advance

  • @TheEdquijano
    @TheEdquijano2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Pixim. This is really an open PS book of knowledge. You make it real. I have a question, how to make a color photo dramatic? Do you have a tutorial pointing in that direction? Thanks.

  • @markham56
    @markham562 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @Cre8tiveWoman

    @Cre8tiveWoman

    2 жыл бұрын

    ADMIN HERE: Thanks for your contribution and for watching! It's because of members like you that PiXimperfect is able to keep creating!

  • @romanoleksyn1953
    @romanoleksyn1953 Жыл бұрын

    You must be a millionare from people donating, couse you share so much knowledge. Thank's for you job))

  • @mariopachon8631
    @mariopachon86312 жыл бұрын

    Awesome.....info......tks.....Nimesh

  • @anshikasharma0907
    @anshikasharma09072 жыл бұрын

    New video! 🤩🤩

  • @PowerControl
    @PowerControl2 жыл бұрын

    Normally Anglo-American channels seem to govern the KZread realm, but for PS you are my number 1!

  • @amanar14
    @amanar142 жыл бұрын

    Great 💯

  • @nanochannel1193
    @nanochannel11932 жыл бұрын

    great content

  • @gaetanaga
    @gaetanaga2 жыл бұрын

    Bravo 😀!!!

  • @Sathyamk
    @Sathyamk2 жыл бұрын

    Ur the best man when it comes to PS

  • @qed2997
    @qed29972 жыл бұрын

    "HDR Vomit" - love that expression!

  • @vicentecanonserrano886
    @vicentecanonserrano8862 жыл бұрын

    Video guardado. Saludos.

  • @jeremytodaz4783
    @jeremytodaz47832 жыл бұрын

    First!!! Can’t wait to watch this one!!!

  • @emeteriogomez3748
    @emeteriogomez37482 жыл бұрын

    this dude is a genious

  • @victorayomide_1
    @victorayomide_12 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this, this really helps a lot, as in it helps a lot.

  • @PiXimperfect

    @PiXimperfect

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad to know that! Appreciate you watching :)\

  • @maophantulaotkasmil44
    @maophantulaotkasmil442 жыл бұрын

    Tks mr ⚘⚘⚘

  • @michellemichaud9296
    @michellemichaud92962 жыл бұрын

    I love watching and learning from your tutorial videos. You’re really good at editing. I see you use a stylus pen mouse. There’s so many on the market but they do not have good reviews. Can you share what stylus you use?

  • @dwarakesh5891
    @dwarakesh58912 жыл бұрын

    Nice nice!

  • @marklutnes935
    @marklutnes9352 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! You've sharpened my focus in several areas with this video. Smart Sharpening a human being. For example, I've been guilty of being heavy-handed with the clarity slider...in both directions. Thank you Unmesh.

  • @Cre8tiveWoman

    @Cre8tiveWoman

    2 жыл бұрын

    ADMIN HERE: Thanks for your great feedback and for your support on Patreon. It's because of members like you that PiXimperfect is able to keep creating.

  • @avinashsurve2898
    @avinashsurve28982 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @sethasareprof.3280
    @sethasareprof.32802 жыл бұрын

    Best of all. Please I'm requesting, make a video on restoring an old portrait photograph. Looking forward....