How to Create Black & White Enlargements From Digital Color Prints
Turning your color pictures into black and white enlargements can add a dramatic flare to your images. As long as you still have a copy of the original photo - -and the rights to that image -- you can easily create black and white enlargements.
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Instructions
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Creating Your Image Online
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Scan the original photo onto your computer - if the image was not taken in a digital format. Different scanners will require different steps; however, make sure you select the highest resolution possible for your scanned image. This will give you the best quality digital image.
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Upload your digital picture to a photo-processing website. For a list of online photo labs, visit the "Photo Labs" section inside the "Library of Photography" website (see Resources).
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Look at the different editing tools available to you. Kodak Gallery (see Resources) allows users to crop photos, digitally enhance the image and change the color scheme using its "Professional Prints" ordering option. To select black and white images, click on that option from the drop-down menu.
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Browse the different sizing options for your photo. If your original color photo was 4 by 6 inches, enlargement options would include 5 by 7 inches, 8 by 10 inches, and 11 by 14 inches. The photo lab website "Digilarge" offers poster-sized prints as large as 20 by 40 inches.
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Click on the "Order" button to process and pay for your order.
Editing Your Image
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Scan the original color copy onto your computer, creating a digital copy of the image -- if the image is not already in a digital format.
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Open the digital image in a photo editing programming. This may be software you already own, such as Adobe Photoshop, or a free program such as the one offered by the website "Picnik."
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Click on the program's "Edit" option: for Photoshop, this tab is found at the top of the screen along the toolbar; for Picnik, it is on a tab located at the top-middle of the website's homepage.
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Look for and select the "Colors" option (this is what the option is called in Picnik; it may have different names in other programs). Choose the "White and Black" option from the menu.
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Save your edited image as a ".jpg" file. For portability of this image (and to be able to use it in section 3 to make prints), save it to a CD or external memory card.
Printing Your Image
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Remove the CD or memory card from your computer.
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Visit a store that has a photo-printing kiosk. These are found in many supermarkets and pharmacies.
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Insert your CD or memory card into the appropriate slot in the photo-printing kiosk. Browse the CD or memory card for the file you wish to print.
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Select "enlargements" from the on-screen menu guide. Choose the enlargement size you prefer, and click "Order" (this option may also be named "Print" or "Check Out," depending on the photo kiosk and store you are using).
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Tips & Warnings
The photo kiosks described in section 3 can also help you edit your image. Instead of following the steps in section 2, simply scan your original color print using the kiosk's scanning tool (not all kiosks may have this option). Then select "Edit" or "Edit Colors" and choose the black and white option. Continue on with section 3, step 4 to choose enlargements and print.
Under certain circumstances, it is against U.S. copyright law to print an image to which you do not own the rights. If you wish to edit and print enlargements of an image shot by a professional photographer, you must first get them to sign a release form. If you edit or print your photos in a store, you may be asked to present that release form before purchasing your images.
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