Making a black and white photo from a colored graphic with masks

Making a black and white photo from a colored graphic with masks.
By: Imgoodineb aka Kim

Open up the graphic you would like to turn into a black and white photo.
I am going to use this one as part of this tutorial.

- Next go to:
Masks - New - From Image

- Then, you will get a pop up 'window' . Make sure
you leave it at "source luminance" -- and have invert mask data
checked.

- now it should look like this

Don't worry if it doesn't look like there is any image there, it will show up with the next step

- Now, pick the color black as your foreground color
and with the airbrush tool , paint all over the picture as if
you wanted to color it all in black.
**note changing the brush size to a bigger size will save you time...**
**...and will make sure you DO NOT miss a spot**
I used 145
Your image should now look something like this. Keep in mind that
graphics will vary on how much is actually visible.

- go up to Masks - Save To Disk,
& give it a name.

Now press shiftD and make a copy
- close your original.
and do not save changes

- Now go to layers>merge>all flatten
and you will have a black and white photo

you can finish the look by using Xenofex>Stain
with these settings

and your end results should be like this

Enjoy,
Kim

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