Digital BW, The Print

Bill Pierce posted his method for B&W conversion on the RangeFinder forum using LR and works very well:

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(My own technique is to convert to black and white in Lightroom, boost the clarity to about 60, the fill light to about 35, the recovery to about 75 and reduce the brightness to about 0. Then I increase the contrast, exposure and finally the black setting to produce a pleasing image. Obviously these numbers change with specific images, but this is the range I work in.(My own technique is to convert to black and white in Lightroom, boost the clarity to about 60, the fill light to about 35, the recovery to about 75 and reduce the brightness to about 0. Then I increase the contrast, exposure and finally the black setting to produce a pleasing image. Obviously these numbers change with specific images, but this is the range I work in.

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jim Goshorn <jgoshorn@...> wrote:
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> There are many waysI've read about to create a BW image:
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> 1) Desaturate
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> 2) Grayscale mode
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> 3) L channel in LAB
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> 4) Fill a color image with black in color mode
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> 5) Sliders in Photoshop/Lightroom/ACR
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> 6) Channel Mixer
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> 7) Plug-Ins like Silver Efex Pro
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> 8) Dual Hue/Saturation layers
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> 9) R, G, B layers based on their respective channels and masked
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> 10) R, G, B layers based on their respective channels with an additional Grayscale layer and masked
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> 11) Channel Mixer layers, 1 each for R, G, B and masked
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> 12) Channel Mixer layers, 1 each for R, G, B along with a Silver Efex layer and masked
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> 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)
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> And I've played with combinations of the above...
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> 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.
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> Jim
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