Comments on: How to Add Character to Black and White Portraits http://www.lightstalking.com/black-white-portrait-hdr Beautiful Photography Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: spodzone http://www.lightstalking.com/black-white-portrait-hdr#comment-12274 spodzone Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:44:35 +0000 http://www.lightstalking.com/?p=442#comment-12274 Alternatively, you could stick with the original with levels adjustment.<br><br>Or, alternatively 2, the Gimp has an emulator of various black-and-white films, which will help position the tones quite nicely.<br><br>I'm not seeing what HDR-from-one-image accomplishes that these techniques do not already achieve, which is not to say you can't do HDR (or, perhaps more usefully, tonemapping) if you want. Alternatively, you could stick with the original with levels adjustment.

Or, alternatively 2, the Gimp has an emulator of various black-and-white films, which will help position the tones quite nicely.

I'm not seeing what HDR-from-one-image accomplishes that these techniques do not already achieve, which is not to say you can't do HDR (or, perhaps more usefully, tonemapping) if you want.

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