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Re: B&W Conversion Workflow

2003-03-17 by John Vitollo

> Anyway, sorry for the long sob story but I'm wondering how do you get 
> to your B&W image?  Do you do it all in grayscale and then convert to 
> RGB or do you keep it in RGB all the way?
> Tom Husband

Have you tried converting RGB to Lab then turn off A and B channel and work with the Lightness channel - works most of the time for me. But it seems your problem is more on the output side?

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