This course will teach you how to convert your color images to black and white and make them look fantastic.  In this course you will learn Google's Nik Silver Efex Pro 2, which is now free, and is considered to be one of the best black and white image conversion software.

The course is 100% video tutorials plus the software you need for the course is free.  The course should only take a day or two to complete and there is a project for you to complete to show off your new skills.

This course has a getting started section that will explain how all Nik plugins work and then a detailed section about Silver Efex.

You should take this course if you want to learn any of the items listed below and if you want to improve your black and white photography.

You will learn to:

• Make exposure adjustments
• Contrast adjustments
• Use presets
• Save presets
• Import/Export presets
• How to create your own B&W recipe from scratch
• How to emulate the look of different types of film
• How to add film grain
• How to add borders
• Basically to create a stunning B&W image.