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Nice job on the black munchstagea, I must say I rather like it like that. Can I ask for a tip in how you got the black to look so good? When I go black, it never looks quite right. I'm not very good at photoshop, and am probably doing my colour changes the wrong way as mine always dont quite look right.

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Nice job on the black munchstagea, I must say I rather like it like that. Can I ask for a tip in how you got the black to look so good? When I go black, it never looks quite right. I'm not very good at photoshop, and am probably doing my colour changes the wrong way as mine always dont quite look right.

Cheers

Going from Dark to Light or Light to Dark is the hardest colour change to achieve because light naturally interacts completely differently with the 2. Having said that, the only thing I have done is used a "Levels" adjustment layer while masking out the section I want to effect. If you want to try it, the settings I used for this image were:

Channel - RGB

Input levels - 57/0.29/255

Output levels - 0/128

The key here is the output levels and the fact that I am pulling the white out of the image, once you do that the rest is trying to balance the highlights back in there. I hope that helps.

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Luke

Ahhh thanks for those tips Luke, should come in handy. I know what you mean about the light interactivity, with the original 3 pics I pic, you'll notice the blacks have reversed reflections, not sure how I did the second one, but it does look better, but I couldn't replicate the same effect until your tips, so thanks for that. I just fiddle until things look right!

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