How to Emphasize Points Using Black and White Photography

The art of trying to create black and white photography is not new. It’s been around for longer than colored photos (or TVs for that matter), and even today, when the quality of pixels in cameras matter so much, there is still lingering preferences for black and white photos. There are many applications and softwares that can turn color photos into black and white, and one of those choices is Adobe Photoshop Touch, which is available for iPad and Android devices.

There are several reasons why I used Adobe Photoshop Touch to create these two artistic black and white photos, and one of them is a feature called Highlight/Shadow. It’s a great feature because you can adjust the strength of how something is bright and how something is dark – excellent tool to emphasize sunlight and de-emphasize shadow. The issue with just turning colored photos to black and white is that once photos lose their colors, it’s hard to put focus into where the main point of the story is located.

That’s why having the ability to set aside certain aspects of photos to be more emphasized is beneficial. These two photos were taken by iPhone 4S and edited using Adobe Photoshop Touch. No other applications were used although several other features within Adobe Photoshop Touch were used to fine-tune these photos.

Note to readers:
These two photos and the blog post are artistic work created solely by myself.