Digital BW, The Print

I'm sure a lot of people will chime in here with answers. However, your
questions are so basic that my suggestion is for you to pick up a book
and learn this first. Try "Photoshop 6 Artistry" by Haynes Crumpler.
Even though it is a bit beyond what you need at the moment, it has the
best chapter explaining these basics I've seen. Don't feel alone. This
is the most common point of confusion for people entering the digital
domain. The problem is that invariably you get more bogus answers than
good ones. In order to avoid even more confusion, take a look at that
book.

g

-----Original Message-----
From: MARK MAIO [mailto:markmaio@...] 
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:44 PM
To: Digital B&W Group
Subject: [Digital BW] Scanner/Conversion question

Being new to this list and digital printing, this might be a basic
question, so I apologize in advance if it is.

I am using a quad tone B&W printing system and having my B&W negatives
drum scanned. For the purpose of this question, I ask for the scan to be
for output at (X) dpi @ (X) size, which, for examples sake, gives me a
75 meg RGB file. When I open the file in PhotoShop and convert it to
gray scale, I end up with a 25 meg file, which now limits me to a
smaller size/resolution print.

So, I paid for a 75 meg scan but I can only use 25 megs of it. I could
pay for a 225 meg scan to get the 75 megs I need to use or I could find
a lab that would do custom gray scale drum scans, but I had another idea
I wanted to run by the group. Would it be possible to open the B&W image
as a RGB file and then convert/save each of the three color layers as a
separate gray scale layer of 25 megs each and somehow merge them
together to end up with a 75 meg gray scale file?

Thanks in advance,

Mark Maio



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