Photography and the Creative Process

I chanced upon a stunningly mysterious black and white portrait of the 1920’s actress, Louise Brooks. I am inspired by this image.
You may view that photograph by clicking –here–.

There are numerous ways to convert color photos to black and white in Photoshop. Simply changing the mode to grayscale or desaturating the photo are two simple methods that often result in a flat uninteresting image. A more sophisticated approach is to open the Photoshop Channels tab to find the three separate channels [...]