Digital BW, The Print

There are two cheaper alternatives to buying Photoshop to get 
the channel mixer effect. One is Picture Window Pro (less than 
$100), which in addition to the equivalent of the channel mixer 
also actually lets you select from a digital filter bank, as 
well as using any other color to "filter" a color image into 
black and white. It also performs all its operations on either 
eight or 16-bit files.

A free alternative is also available as a plug-in for Photoshop 
Elements. The package, which the developer seems interested in 
updating, is available at:

http://member.melbpc.org/~pshipley/Download.htm

It adds a channel mixer and several other photoshop features. 
I have yet to try them as I work mostly in Picture Window Pro, 
but on first glance it looked good, and the price is certainly 
right.

- David

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You can bring up any tones you want. You adjust the red, green, 
and blue
tones the way you want them to appear in monochrome. You'd use 
lots of
red if you want a black sky, you'd use mainly the green if you 
wanted to
lighten foilage. You can make selections and use any filter (RGor 
B) to
enhance it. You have none of these controls by just desaturating 
an
image. Be sure you learn how the channel mixer works, you'll 
never just
desaturate again! It's like having an infinite variety of colored
filters for your camera, only now you don't need filters on your 
camera,
you have them in photoshop. (assuming you are shooting your originals 
in
color, but want black and white from them).

Jerry

millerhillsteve 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
> 
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