Digital BW, The Print

I think you've got the answer. As with anything in Photoshop, there are
multiple roads to the same destination. Each image is different and may
require a different method to achieve the desired result. We are
actually fortunate to have so many methods to do a grayscale conversion:
Russell's technique, Jeff Schewe's, channel mixer, Hue/Sat, etc.
 
Stan Shire
Associate Professor/Department Chair
Photographic Imaging
Community College of Philadelphia
Adobe Photoshop 6 A.C.E.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Flashner [mailto:tflash@...] 
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:04 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Converting to B&W Workflow question
 
Hi Bob,

I dunno. I certainly didn't mean to imply I thought Jeff's way was
better -
they both offer a lot of control. The one thing I do like about Jeff's
way
is that it's easy for me to toggle the layers on and off to remind
myself
what each channel looks like. With Russell's I feel a little like I'm
swinging those sliders almost arbitrarily. OTOH, if I want to do
something
tricky to a non primary color (i.e. cyan) I'd rather do it with
Russell's
approach. I'm sure whichever method one has the most familiarity with
will
serve them best.

Todd Flashner

> Todd,
> 
> Isn't Russell Brown's method better still?
> 
> Bob Frost.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd Flashner" <tflash@...>
>> 
>> You might want to try taking your action one step further. I got this
from
>> Jeff Schewe...
>> 
>> Make each channel a layer, this allows you to adjust the opacity of
each
>> channel/layer, plus apply layer blend modes too. For instance, and
this is
>> arbitrary, you could put the red channel above the green, set it's
blend
>> mode to multiply, and it's opacity to 60%, the green channel could be
set
> to
>> screen at 30%, etc...)
>> 
>> He finds it more intuitive, and powerful, than channel mixer.





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