Black & White Artisan Pro 1.3.0 Plugin for Photoshop Win/Mac

B&W Artisan Pro is a Photoshop panel that enables you to easily craft masterful B&W photographs faster and more intuitively, with just a minimum of Photoshop knowledge and experience. No steep learning curves and years of practice are needed to create striking B&W images for which normally advanced knowledge of B&W processing techniques and Photoshop was needed. Artisan Pro is not a ‘filter/effects’ panel that comes at the expense of creativity, but it is an editing panel that liberates, rather than restricts, creativity.

MAKING ADVANCED B&W EDITING EFFORTLESS AND INTUITIVE
1. One major obstacle in the creation of beautiful and sophisticated B&W photographs was that this was only possible with advanced PS knowledge or B&W processing experience. Making this a technical process that took away from the artistic process. By ‘hiding’ the advanced technical steps under a preset in this panel, now also beginners in Photoshop can create technically advanced B&W photographs, while the artist still retains full artistic control over the image. Which is unlike ‘full presets’ or filters, that have an artistic effect.
2. Another problem in any type of photo editing is to make very precise local adjustments that blend in seamlessly with the rest of the image. This is often a time-consuming and technical process that takes away from the intuitive artistic process. This panel solves that problem by enabling the artist to quickly indicate the area that needs to be adjusted, carefree with a freeform selection, and then darken/lighten subtly with the click of a button. The panel ensures the local adjustment blends in smoothly and precisely with(in) the adjacent areas.

SMART ADJUSTMENT FEATURES FOR PRECISE LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS.
1. Advanced Local Adjustments: enable accurate and subtle local adjustments by carefree and form-free indicating with the lasso tool the target area to be adjusted and then clicking the darken/lighten preset. The change will be applied in a smart and seamless way while avoiding any abrupt transitions with adjacent areas. If you already have a pre-created mask, you can use these too with this new feature.
2. Micro-Zone Local Adjustment: the same as Advanced Smart Linear adjustment but now the local adjustments affect only a selected range of tonal values only, within the target area, by using advanced 16 bits customized asymmetrical masks that work behind the scenes (no knowledge of luminosity masks is needed) for even more accurate and seamless tonal and contrast adjustments.

ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES UNDER THE HOOD
B&W Artisan Pro consists of presets that trigger features, that aren’t readily available in Photoshop. Each preset triggers a specific sequence of combined advanced PS features and also ‘hidden’ PS features, that sometimes consists of more than hundred different steps, in a way that reflects Joel Tjintjelaar’s signature B&W processing style and techniques to render a non-destructive result.