Adding saturation to converted digital B&W images

[Nikon 2]

That company made hundreds of versions across dozens of products over the years.

This is all I got…

 

[djdister]

Now that I understand the effect you are talking about, I'll tell you how I achieve that in Photoshop. It has nothing to do with saturation and everything to do with selective color filtration when converting from color to black and white.

First, a raw color shot saved as jpg:

Next, here's a fairly "straight" conversion to monochrome:

And here is a conversion to monochrome using the "Infrared" color filtration schema in the Black and White Adjustment layer, which emphasizes yellows and greens, subsequently making them very light in tone and looking like snow is on the foliage:

Notice how all of the foliage "glows"...

 

[Nikon 2]

Now that I understand the effect you are talking about, I'll tell you how I achieve that in Photoshop. It has nothing to do with saturation and everything to do with selective color filtration when converting from color to black and white.

First, a raw color shot saved as jpg:
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Next, here's a fairly "straight" conversion to monochrome:
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And here is a conversion to monochrome using the "Infrared" color filtration schema in the Black and White Adjustment layer, which emphasizes yellows and greens, subsequently making them very light in tone and looking like snow is on the foliage:
View attachment 414131

Notice how all of the foliage "glows"...

I don’t have Photoshop on my computer…

 

[Nikon 2]

My images are Raw when I adjust them…!

 

[djdister]

My images are Raw when I adjust them…!

So was mine. What you adjusted in your conversion was not saturation but rather a selective color filtration in conversion to black and white.

 

[Nikon 2]

So was mine. What you adjusted in your conversion was not saturation but rather a selective color filtration in conversion to black and white.

These are my only adjustments.
For the color images to be converted to B&W I need only to select neutrals and no more color…!

 

[djdister]

These are my only adjustments…!

It's those adjustments under the Black & White panel that is doing most of the work in the conversion, while the saturation adjustment under the Color panel is lost in the conversion to Black and White.

 

[koraks]

For the color images to be converted to B&W I need only to select neutrals and no more color…!

Ok, I think I understand what's happening. If you're working on RAW files (which are color natively in your case), the order in which the adjustments are made matters in this case. It's likely that the saturation adjustment is performed before the conversion to monochrome.

 

[Nikon 2]

Ok, I think I understand what's happening. If you're working on RAW files (which are color natively in your case), the order in which the adjustments are made matters in this case. It's likely that the saturation adjustment is performed before the conversion to monochrome.

Well:

Step 1. The color images are shown.
Step 2. I click on Neutrals
Step 3. It’s now converted to B&W
Step 4. Saturation seems to be already engaged in the middle of the scale…

 

[koraks]

Step 3. Saturation seems to be already engaged in the middle…

The saturation slider is one that can be taken up or down; down means you bring the image towards monochrome, up means you boost the saturation. So by default it will indeed be in the middle.

 

[Nikon 2]

It's those adjustments under the Black & White panel that is doing most of the work in the conversion, while the saturation adjustment under the Color panel is lost in the conversion to Black and White.

It’s the saturation adjustment under the color panel that creates the snowy texture…!

 

[Nikon 2]

It’s the saturation adjustment under the color panel that creates the snowy texture…!

Clicking on any of the tabs under the Black & White panel turns the color image to monochrome…

They are:

Intensity
Neutrals
Tone
Grain

 

[Nikon 2]

Now that I understand the effect you are talking about, I'll tell you how I achieve that in Photoshop. It has nothing to do with saturation and everything to do with selective color filtration when converting from color to black and white.

First, a raw color shot saved as jpg:
View attachment 414129

Next, here's a fairly "straight" conversion to monochrome:
View attachment 414130

And here is a conversion to monochrome using the "Infrared" color filtration schema in the Black and White Adjustment layer, which emphasizes yellows and greens, subsequently making them very light in tone and looking like snow is on the foliage:
View attachment 414131

Notice how all of the foliage "glows"...

Thank you for your help and time, really appreciate that, even though I have no idea what’s going on still…

 

[Nikon 2]

I converted this image not only to B&W but another world…