Black and White Conversion Challenge Round 1

Now that Google has released the Nik Collection for free, I wondered which is the best way to convert a color image into a B&W image. So I wanted to compare the results from RawTherapee, GIMP G’MIC Plugin, and Nik Collection in Photoshop. What follows are four videos as go through the processes.

Here are the files:

Scarlett-and-Beauty-Dish-in-the-Basement-2016-03-30-001-bw-SilverEFEX-cropped

Scarlett-and-Beauty-Dish-in-the-Basement-2016-03-30-001-bw-SilverEFEX

Scarlett-and-Beauty-Dish-in-the-Basement-2016-03-30-001-colorfixed-bw

Scarlett-and-Beauty-Dish-in-the-Basement-2016-03-30-001-colorfixed-bw-ilford400

Scarlett-and-Beauty-Dish-in-the-Basement-2016-03-30-001-colorfixed-gimp-bw

Scarlett-and-Beauty-Dish-in-the-Basement-2016-03-30-001-colorfixed-gimp-bw-cropped

Scarlett-and-Beauty-Dish-in-the-Basement-2016-03-30-001-SilverEFEX-Ilford-Delta-400

And the TIFF file.

May 5, 2016

Eric Mesa

Computers, Linux, Photography