How can you get an effective black and white picture?

Question

I am printing a newspaper and I need to know what kind of setting I should be in to print an effective black and white picture. No color!

Answer 1

It's hard to answer this because we don't know the process you are going through. Are you going from film to digital or you already at digital for the capture phase?

If you are using film at the capture phase - scan your image at 120 DPI (newspaper print quality) and choose to scan image as B&W (if this option is not available, we'll go over converting B&W in an image editor later). Once image is scanned, save as JPEG at some location.

Open image in Photoshop (or your image editor) and choose desaturate to create a greyscaled image. Once image is in greyscale, open up image levels (in Photoshop it's CTRL+L) and adjust the levels to create a more true B&W photo. Once done, choose 'Save As' so you can still keep the oringal image.

If you are using digital at the capture phase, still shoot in color. Plug memory card into card reader and transfer your image to some location on your computer. Follow the above advise for creating a B&W version of it.

Answer 2

It wont matter if your using color or B&W film, just scan it and at say 150ppcm and desaturate. If you are printing it on a standard printer, it will look black and white but the printer will use the colour to create a grayscail. commesial newspapers that use just black ink, have to pixalate the black dots and vary their width to symulate a grayscail using just black. i dont think you have to worry about that as no1 will ever notice. the typsetting is what you will be marked on.

Answer 3

my camera has the setting to take black and white pictures. However, since its for printing you can take it in color and use a software that will transform your picture black and white.

an online software that i know is lunapic.com it has other picture stuff too