BW Artisan Pro X 2021 panel for Photoshop (Win/Mac)

DEDICATED B&W EDITING SOFTWARE FOR ULTIMATE CONTROL

The panels we create for B&W editing are different from the software created by the well-known photo editing manufacturers. Even their B&W only software is targeted at the largest common denominator. We create panels that are designed to only do what I believe is important in B&W photographs: controlling contrasts, light and shadows and transitions from dark to light and intricate details with obsessive accuracy and subtlety. And control should be performed in the best and the fastest way possible.

DESIGNED FOR B&W ARTISTS (AND COLOR)

High-end editing in photography requires a steep technical learning curve and don’t usually go hand in hand with simplicity and creativity. We aim to automate technically advanced tasks with a minimum amount of Photoshop knowledge but with high-end results. Every preset in the panel is a direct translation and adaptation of my personal knowledge and skillset and my need for accuracy and speed in processing.

B&W Artisan Pro X is designed for amateurs and advanced professionals who aim to create sophisticated and artistic B&W photographs without needing in-depth technical knowledge of photo-editing.

B&W Artisan Pro X is a start-to-finish and all-in-one tool that automates all PS sequences for creating high-impact and high-quality B&W photographs, without taking away the control over the artistic process, but instead empowering creativity.

Artisan Pro X eliminates the often complicated technical Photoshop sequences for creating outstanding B&W images. It is designed to give you full artistic control over the photo, according to a proven method for B&W processing that has seen many award-winning adopters over the years.

We provide an automated method, you, the artist, decide on the artistic look and expression. You only. That’s your prerogative, which makes you the artist, not us. The result is a personal and unique expression of the artist. Not a generic look or style.


CREATING FINE-ART – A JOURNEY NOT A DESTINATION

For the demanding and serious B&W photographer, the ability of unrestricted personal and unique expression and high-quality B&W output, are the most important requirements in the artistic process. At the same time, many artists prefer to avoid the steep technical learning curve in PS in favor of the true artistic process. For those artists, we’ve developed B&W Artisan Pro X, that virtually eliminates the need for technical PS knowledge but not at the expense of spontaneous and intuitive creative expression.

Each step in B&W Artisan Pro X requires your individual, artistic input that contributes to a unique and personal end-result. It’s the effort, the dedication, perspiration, inspiration, and craftsmanship that goes into creating art that makes it a profound and highly valuable experience. Instant filters for a quick but mainstream result, deny all the important parts of artistic creation that make the creation an individual creation. They deny the personal journey and your individuality as an artist.

A PROVEN METHOD FOR AWARD-WINNING B&W PHOTOGRAPHERS

The last few years, there’s increasing popularity and appreciation of high impact B&W photos that depict a combination of high contrasts with deep blacks and high whites, and distinctive 3-dimensional depth perception in fine-art architectural photography. Here’s where it all started in 2010 when I published an image of The Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA that was different in 2 important ways:

1. Visually: the exaggerated, sometimes deliberately distorted 3-D depth perception and tonal relationships in, mostly architectural, manmade objects and the abundant and deliberate use of shadows to eliminate distractions and create a dark atmosphere with the eye being led to a distinctive bright high-light in the object

2. Workflow method: the approach was based on a transparent and structured method of B&W processing that I called iSGM that made B&W processing easy to learn and gave the user absolute and accurate control over shapes, light, and contrast in B&W.