Basics
You may achieve your desired results with Affinity Photo, Adobe Photoshop, or another raster image editor.
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- Conversion to Grayscale
- Brightness
- Exposure
- Contrast
- Sharpen
- Dithering
Color Depth
Visual representation of grayscale depth engraving
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- We are looking for a final image that is slightly washed-out with sharp contrast, but not overly so
- For this example, "+2 Stops" is washed out and "-2 Stops" is underexposed
- Using the sliders to adjust your exposure appropriately is recommended
Black & White
- When converting an image from full color I have found the sliders to be best here, using presets to find a close match and then using slight adjustments to tune your image.
- Sliders tune the saturation/intensity of the colors in your image in relation to grayscale. (RGB & CYMK sliders)
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