Digital BW, The Print

There are many waysI've read about to create a BW image:

1) Desaturate

2) Grayscale mode

3) L channel in LAB

4) Fill a color image with black in color mode

5) Sliders in Photoshop/Lightroom/ACR

6) Channel Mixer

7) Plug-Ins like Silver Efex Pro

8) Dual Hue/Saturation layers

9) R, G, B layers based on their respective channels and masked

10) R, G, B layers based on their respective channels with an additional Grayscale layer and masked

11) Channel Mixer layers, 1 each for R, G, B and masked

12) Channel Mixer layers, 1 each for R, G, B along with a Silver Efex layer and masked

13) Silver Efex layers based on R, G, B channels with an additional Silver Efex layer and masked (similar idea to #10 but with more control)

And I've played with combinations of the above...

And if you want more info on the topic, you can check out "From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black and White Technique Known to Man" by Vincent Versace (who came up with some of the above) which is due to be out in July according to Amazon.

Jim