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FREO GRAPHIC June 2021 9 FREO EXTRAS High-Level Principles for Fine-art Processing by Joel Tjintjelaar https://www.bwvision.com/high-level-principles-for-fine-art-processing/ Apr 29, 2021 B&W RECOMMENDED INTRODUCTION There’s an enormous amount of information available on the Internet on how to process images to B&W, or colour for that matter, in fine-art style. Most of the time all those tutorials go into a lot of technical or otherwise very specific detail. Furthermore, how you process your images, is almost always very dependent on the tools you use: Photoshop, Lightroom, Topaz, Skylum, plugins, etc., there’s so much to choose from. Let’s not forget our own B&W Artisan Pro X software In this new blog post, I’m focusing on the Why instead of just the How of fine-art post- processing by presenting a few high-level principles that form the basis of a structured method of processing to create images that are visually effective and aesthetic. Principles that are software independent but also independent of your preference for colour or B&W processing. To make it more practical, I’m providing examples of how to do this – the practical, technical execution – for every principle. Gehry Buildings Dusseldorf Germany 2021 (c) Joel Tjintjelaar even though our software is method-driven and not feature- driven like all other software. A little more on that and how it relates to ‘higher-level principles for fine-art editing’, further down this post. The How – the technique – and features, are so prominently and abundantly described that it’s easy to lose sight of what it really is about, and what the process is (and there should be a process) and what we are actually aiming for when processing images to something in fine-art style or any other style for that matter. The Why – the methodology – and logical steps