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Another personal tutorial! This style is a very easy way to make a professional looking black and white portrait using photoshop. I learned this awhile ago and used it on a few pictures but it only works for certain image.

Suggested elements of your photo:

Light Background ( at least most/some of it )
SMILE!

What You'll Need
-Photoshop ( I suggest cs1+ )
-10-20 minutes
-Basic understanding of photoshop



First you will need to find a picture, this is one I found of myself took about a month ago and it will work very nicely for what we are going to be doing.





In this tutorial you will need to know how to use layer adjustments. Depending on what version of photoshop this can be easy to access or a little more hidden. Here it where it is on a lot of photoshops:






Some of the adjustments might be missing depending on your photoshop version.


We will be first adding an adjustment layer, this adjustment is called exposure:





Set them to my setting for the time being ( You can come back and adjust the setting for fine tuning at the end )

The next step is adding a gradient map. This is a what gives it the look you need. This is what it should look like ( looks may vary )





You're going to need to edit this gradient by double clicking on the gradient preview image. This is what pops up:





Where I have the red circle in the image above, you will want to double click that to edit the color. This window will pop up:





Change the color to #777777 ( it should be a mid tone grey if you're going to use another shade. ).


You're almost done my friend! If you've followed the steps correctly you image should look like this:




Now one more step! Add a Brightness&Contrast layer Adjustment. You can play around with the setting to fine tune your design but these are my settings:




Congratulations You're Done! Hope you had fun, please browse around for more tutorials! Happy Photoshop 'in days to you!