Digital BW, The Print

Jim, 
i have been improving my Photoshop skills with a book called 
Photoshop 7 Artistry by Barry Haynes. It is a excellent book for me. 
There are many hands on tutorials using levels etc. Some of the 
Histograms that you end up with look terrible, but the finished pics 
look great.
So I think that your advice to look at the end result rather than 
stare at a histogram is good.
I would only add the comment that you should use 16 bit mode as far 
as is posssible. 

Barry

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jim hayes" 
<jimhayes@j...> wrote:
> Vinny,
> 
> Well in hand then. I was just more or less stating the obvious 
> cautions.<g>
> 
> Interesting thing though this reminds me of: Sometimes I can get 
> overly concerned with histograms. Historams aren't prints. If the 
> print looks good to your or my eye, that is the most important. I 
have 
> good looking prints that have both great and terrible looking 
histos.
> 
> I may get an argument on that...<g>
> Jim H. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Vincent Orlando" 
> <orlandovl@h...> wrote:
> > 
> > Jim, looking at the histogram I don't see any clipping, the 
print 
> > came out very smooth. No diff between the color print or the B&W 
> with 
> > the warm curve except the color
> > 
> > Vinny
> > 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Vincent Orlando" 
> > <orlandovl@h...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I did the conversion as the last thing. After all my editing I 
> just 
> > > converted to GS and back to RGB. I didn't seem to lose 
anything. I 
> > am 
> > > working in the color space that Paul advised. I have one in 
the 
> > > printer now that I printed with a color printer first so I can 
> > > compare them
> > > 
> > > Vinny
> > >