Black and White in Photoshop II - Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom - page 166

Step 7: Saving Preset
By saving our work as a preset, we can use it later to apply settings quickly to
one or many images.
Step 8: Sharing Settings
Our settings can also be shared with others; to do so navigate to
the appropriately named .xmp settings i les in the user's Adobe/Camera Raw/
Settings folder. These small i les (sets of instructions) can be passed on to
others via email, etc. and loaded into camera raw. To load i les, simply select
the Load Settings option from the preset l yout.
hop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom
Black and White Beyond
A selection of Photoshop plug-ins
Thanks to the extensibility of its plug-in architecture, Photoshop has always
had tremendous powers beyond the features that it ships with. In fact,
many of the features that are included in Photoshop are actually plug-ins
themselves; some are built by Adobe, others licensed from outside providers.
Plug-ins are in essence programs running within a program, and they
can be anything from a reader of an obscure scientii c i le format to a 3D
manipulation tool. As digital photography has exploded in the past years,
a number of third-party plug-ins have been introduced to help in color
correction, lens correction, noise removal, High Dynamic Range and - you
guessed it - black and white conversion!
You may ask yourself, if I have black and white conversion abilities in Photoshop,
Camera Raw and Lightroom, what more do I need? Well, as you are about to
see, there are some very powerful features found in some of these add-on
solutions. There are dozens of products out there, and sites (like Adobe's own
Note to Intel-based
Mac users:
Legacy plug-ins (those
from CS2 and before)
can still run in Apple's
translation environment,
“Rosetta”. To run those
older plug-ins, you must
run Photoshop itself in
Rosetta; to do so press
Command+I on the
Photoshop CS3 or CS4
application icon (in
the Application folder)
and select “Open using
Rosetta”.