Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "millerhillsteve" 
<steverob@s...> wrote:
> I currently am using PS Elements as I can't afford Photoshop and 
frankly, my 
> prints are pretty damn good, but I've seen references to using the 
channel 
> mixer instead of simply switching the mode to greyscale. What are 
the 
> differences in desaturating an image when switching to greyscale?
> 
> Steve

It's like putting a colored filter in front of a "film" camera 
shooting bw film. Put on a red filter- dark skies, etc. You just pull 
the sliders around in monochrome mode, rule #1 being to always try to 
get the three % values to equal about +100% when you're done.

PS7 comes with presets that you can just load in the channel mixer and 
poof!

 Fred Miranda has written actions which emulate different colored 
filters being put on your "lens"- they don't work in elements, but he 
DOES use the channel mixer, and if you go here:

http://www.fredmiranda.com/BW_filters/index.html

you will see side by side images of a sample landscape with different 
channer mixer (i.e. Fred's settings to emulate "virtual lens filters") 
settings.
Jim H.