"Although colour photography is far more popular these days, there’s still something very attractive about nice black and white print. However you've probably noticed that if you simply set your camera to black & white, or convert a colour image to greyscale (removing the colour information) using your image editing software, the resulting image looks very flat and uninteresting. In traditional black and white photography colour filters are placed over the camera lens to emphasise different tones in the final image. For example a red or orange filter blocks out blue light, and so makes a blue sky look much darker, which allows the clouds to stand out. You can achieve the same effect in Photoshop Elements using two hue/saturation/brightness adjustment layers, one to simulate the effects of the colour filter, and the other to convert the final image to monochrome."
Some of my favorite images are ones in B&W so this is a welcome tutorial. Previously I would just buy some B&W film but now with my digital camera, I often just convert pictures into greyscale mode using Photoshop. However, this articles teaches one to create B&W images by going beyond just converting modes. And it looks like they get better results.
Image Editing Tutorial - Monochrome from Color
Linear Mode
