Black & White Collage 01

For both this collage and the next one, I began by scanning in 24-bit color the original black and white photo of a mainly magazine, greeting card, and related ephemera cut-and-paste collage. Then I tweaked the perspective to something close to the way the original presented on the wall, applied a sharpen filter (1x) and then adjusted curves, shadows and highlights. After changing image color to black I desaturated the colors rather than converting back to grayscale.