Ron, or anyone that knows this. I saw a post about a posterized picture and Ron posted a black/white treatment. How did you do that? Was it done in Poser or Photoshop? If it was done in Poser, can you please explain. Thanks juju-b

I think Ron sent the rendered image through a greyscale filter in Photoshop. Ask him, though, just to be certain. You could get the same effect in Poser itself using greyscale textures, but that would be too troublesome.

First I must confess I've fiddled with Adobe PhotoShop for 6 years, and am not even sure I know what I'm doing half the time! I had to fiddle a bit more to answer this question. I achieved the Black & White (grayscale) effect in Adobe PhotoShop. 1.) Load your original image. 2.) Choose the Image Menu 3.) Go to Mode 4.) Choose Grayscale

5.) You are asked if you wish to discard the color information. Click OK.

Here is the Grayscale Image.

Here is the original image. This picture needs lots of work. The saloon has no furniture, and it looks like Mike split his britches. Someone might tell you of other ways to achieve this effect in PhotoShop. I'm starting to fiddle with Actions. I understand the concept, but not exactly how to use them. Not everyone can afford Adobe PhotoShop. One good program is Ulead PhotoImpact. PhotoImpact has many of the same features you can find in PhotoShop, but it costs somewhere around $100.

yOU CAN DO B&w IN poser by doing a one frame animation render. In the animation menus you can render b and w.

I'm staying away from Animations in Poser right now. When I first got Poser, I fiddled with animations, and had some pretty funny clips of the dork walking into the camera, breaking it, etc. But that was enough for awhile.

Ron, You don't have to be doing "animations" to use some of the extended features that it offers. Seems that "one frame" animations overcomes a lot of obstacles that a plain render offers. (e.g., larger images seems to be mentioned a lot).

Attached Link: http://Cyber-Fyber.bbay.com/images/CF-DLfiles/SketchDesignTutorial.pdf.zip

Youi don't need Photoshop to get B&W renders. Use the Sketch Design feature and select NO COLOR for Objects, Background, and Edges. Render in SD window and Save as a Preset. Go to studio window and select Sketch Style render and GO. You can get really amazing effects this way. Image is a quick Ink Brush Stoke style. For more detail and other cool trix, see my Tutorial at this link.

I'm impressed. I downloaded the tutorial. I'm not sure when I'll get to it. My plate is full, lately. Ron

It might also be interesting to set up your Poser textures in greyscale, then use them to create the image. Just an idle thought.

Out of curiousity, why use the grayscale mode for Photoshop as opposed to using Desaturate option under the Image/Adjust tab? I'm trying to understand how and why artists use certain tools or methods as opposed to other methods. :)

I always use desaturate because I can still use color if I have to without taking the extra step of changing the image back to RGB.

Well, true enough, you could simply desaturate everything and allow access to all the RGB tools. Once you go to greyscale, you shut off access to them. I use greyscale because I never think of desaturating, then I hit myself several times over for having to convert it back to RGB-in-shades-of-grey to move on with it.

To be totally honest, I've used different versions of PhotoShop for years. I probably know how to use a small fraction of its features. So I tried the desaturate today. Pretty Nifty. Ron