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Create a high contrast lith conversion in Photoshop Elements

Remove grey tones to create a high-contrast, arty lith image using Photoshop Elements in just 5 minutes

Most black and white images aren't black and white, if they're well exposed they will have a full tonal range, with most of the image made up of varying shades of grey. In the days of film photography, lith film was used to create high-contrast black and white images with little in the way of midtones. This tutorial will show you how to take the lith look to the extreme. It's a style that only suits certain images, but it can transform a less than inspiring colour shot into a graphic high-impact image. Watch the video to find out how it's done.

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Found the tutorial on this simple technique very useful. By coincidence, and using Photoshop for several years for other techniques I had tried earlier this evening to convert a simple image in the same way by just messing about with Threasholds (think that is the right name) and came up with quite an interesting image high-contrast image, so I feel quite broad of myself that my technique was reiterated in your tutorial.

#1. Posted on Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010 at 07:11pm GMT. Report this

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Sorry about the spelling mistake above, should read "quite an interesting high-contract image, so I feel quite PROUD .....

#2. Posted on Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010 at 07:12pm GMT. Report this

It took 25 bloody minutes to load this page... I couldn't even remember what it was supposed to be when it finally loaded.

#3. Posted on Wednesday, 03 Feb 2010 at 02:53pm GMT. Report this


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