Tutorial: Enhancing Black and White Footage with Adobe Photoshop CC

在本教程中 we’ll explore how you can use Adobe Photoshop to enhance black and white footage. Black-and-white footage is used pretty often in our industry, whether to create an old-fashioned look, 古装剧, or to create a more stylized effect. I'm going to show you how to use Photoshop to really fine-tune your black-and-white effect. Although Photoshop isn't a video-first tool, it does offer some nice features that aren't available in Premiere Pro or After Effects.

涂黑 & 白色的过滤器

Starting with a video clip already preselected, open it in Adobe Photoshop. In the Photoshop menu, go to File > Open, and browse until find your video. When your clip is loaded, you'll see that you have a timeline just like you would see in other video editing software (下面的图1).

图1. The video timeline in Photoshop CC. Click the image to see it at full size.

To the right of that panel is a Layers panel (also shown in 图1). Here, right-click on your video clip and select Convert to Smart Object. This tells Photoshop that you want to make universal changes to your video rather than applying your changes to just one frame.

Now you can add the Black & 白色的过滤器 to your entire clip. In the Adjustments panel highlighted in 图1 you'll see a number of choices. Hovering over these gives you a description of what each adjustment can do. For this clip, choose the Black & White option in the second row (下面的图2).

图2. 选择黑色 & 白色的过滤器

Once you select it, you will see that the Black & White adjustment has been added. Because we made this a smart objective, this has been applied to our entire clip. Under the Properties panel (下面的图3) we can begin to fine-tune our video.

图3. 黑色的 & 白色的过滤器 Properties panel

From the top you'll see a drop-down of preset looks that you can apply (下面的图4). These are nice if you're in a hurry, or have a certain look already dialed in. For our purposes we'll stick with the default setting.

图4. 预设看起来