45. Pin-Ups

Today, I turned a color image black and white, played with the brightness and contrast, and added a blue filter.

before:

I did the same for this photo except I hand colored the lips red. 

 Result: Vampy.

This isn't what I was planning to do.  I found a video teaching me about "actions" in PS, that I thought I could teach myself. WRONG! I will go back and learn more tomorrow.

The original:

7. Turning an Image Black and White

I followed this tutorial about turning my image black and white.

"Back in the day, when one would print their own black and white prints, you had a choice of a zillion different papers. They basically boiled down to cooltone and warmtone papers. This combined with different developers gave one an array of tones to choose from for any given picture. Sadly, nowadays it’s getting harder to find specific papers and certain developers are no longer being manufactured. In the digital era, most people who might not have gone through the trouble of trying different tones of paper (or even B&W printing for that matter) will be satisfied with converting a color image to a straight B&W palette by simply desaturating the color. Today we’re going to take it a step further. Achieving different tones for specific images will help you create different moods according to the overall look you’re going for."  -Photoshop Road Map