B&W Lab 3 is now available for Photoshop Elements 5 & 6
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago by Graffi | | 604 views | Technorati
Easily create
B&W effects
and frames in
Elements 5 & 6Graffi’s B&W Lab Action Set for Elements
These actions offer a variety of ways to convert your color photos into Black and White (including utilizing multiple saturation adjustment layers, various color channels, additional color layers and several combinations of them all), and many of them delve into Lab mode (an image mode available to full Photoshop users).
These actions are all fully compatible with Photoshop Elements 5, Photoshop Elements 6 and Photoshop CS +. There are 58 different actions in the Elements 5 version, and 41 actions available in the Elements 6 version - actions that color adjust, color tint, desaturate, manipulate color channels and several additional actions that even frame your images in a variety of ways, from gallery frames, to elegant line frames to solid borders. Now you can create stunningly crisp Black and White images - and frame them - with just a click. What’s more, in Elements 5, this pack unlocks Lab mode - a powerful image mode only available to Photoshop users. (*Note: Lab mode is not available in the Elements 6 package).
The download includes an installer as well as an uninstaller, so you don’t have to waste time moving files here and there. Simply download, unzip, run the installer and fire up Elements. That’s it.
Some folks offer you one or two effects for far more than the cost of this self-installing pack, which brings 58 powerful actions to Elements 5.
Elements 6 users will enjoy 41 actions - everything except the Lab mode actions.
Want to see some samples? John Gray has some nice examples in his gallery. So does dondiego. You can also just check out some of the sample images scattered around here, including the installer interface above.
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Check out this new action pack - I’m sure you’ll be happy with both the results and the price!
Note: this action pack is for Photoshop Elements 5 & 6 only!
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I’m confused:
(*Note: Lab mode is not available in the Elements 6 package).
What is this note referring to?
Graffi,
I sure like the new actions you added to B&W LAB 3.0. The “Soft B&W” is one of the new actions that I like using with my covered bridges. Thanks so much for putting the new actions for PSE 5.
John
Hi, Joe - Lab mode is no longer unlockable in Elements 6 (Adobe closed that door) - so if you want Lab mode, be sure to get the PSE 5 version.
Thanks, John - you do excellent work with them -
Hi,
I have purchased and download both PSE5 and PSE6 B&W Lab actions packs yesterday. I sure like them all, but I am not sure what “Lab Mode” is. Thanks so much for the new actions.
JIJ
Hi, JIJ -
Lab mode is another image mode that you can use to edit your photos, like RGB mode (which is Red-Green-Blue - the standard way images are composited in cameras & on computers, by blending the Red, Green & Blue channels together) or greyscale mode (which simply removes the color information and displays images in various degrees of black - yep, black!)
- it’s awesomeness comes from it’s non-destructive way of doing things - It composes images based on a “Lightness” channel & two color channels - “a” & “b” (hence the name, “Lab” mode)
Images converted to Lab mode can be editied and manipulated in many ways, but the most common are sharpening, conversion to B&W and color correction.
There’s a tutorial about Sharpening in Lab mode here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/instant_photoshop.shtml
A tutorial about B&W conversions here:
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/lab-color.php
and another about color correction here:
http://www.photolinks.com/resources.html?p_page=color-white.html
and a video about sharpening & Color correction here:
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/a-color-correcting-and-sharpening-tutorial-in-photoshop/
(By the way, there are actions for these techniques in the Handy Actions pack - as well as access to all the tools to achieve them!)