Digital BW, The Print

There are a couple of other ways of using Photoshop to convert color to  
grayscale. Look at the Russell Brown tutorial here:
http://www.russellbrown.com/body.html
click on the quicktime movie under "Seeing in Black & White. It's  
entertaining and illustrates the technique. Also, he has other useful  
tutorials.
Another way is to use the channel mixer. Check this site:
http://www.computer-darkroom.co.uk/
Look under Photoshop tutorials for "Black and white from Colour".
They are both interesting ways of doing what you want, and will give  
more interesting results than simply changing the mode to grayscale in  
PS.

Enjoy,
Bob Damon

On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 01:15  AM, bensongary wrote:

> I've always used the Photoshop Image->Mode command when I needed to
> convert a color image to grayscale, but I've seen various references
> to other software used for this purpose.  I'd appreciate any
> information on what software I might consider as an alternative to
> Photoshop for this purpose and also any technical info on what the
> software is doing (whether Photoshop or other) when an image is
> converted from color to grayscale.  Also, any thoughts on how to
> evaluate Photoshop vs the alternatives with respect to the conversion
> process and resulting image.  In other words, in what way would my
> grayscale images be better if I used a program other than Photoshop 6
> do to the conversion?
>
> TIA,
>
> Gary Benson
> Eagle River, Alaska
>
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