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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Converting Color to B & W in Photoshop

2003-07-08 by Wendel White

> My favourite way is to use the channel mixer. That way I can mix
> channels similar to using different filters if shooting BW.
> 
> On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 07:30  AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 
>> Keith writes:
>> 
>>> My own quick favourite is converting to Lab and
>>> deleting the a&b channels.
>> 
>> In Photoshop, this is the same as converting to grayscale or
>> desaturating.

You may want to try "Hue and Saturation." After opening the dialogue, I
desaturate the image in the "master" setting, then chose one of the
individual colors (or what really makes this powerful is to select a
specific wavelength on the slider) to lighten or darken the response. I
prefer H&S because I can control the boundaries of the color response and
therefore get more control than with channel mix.

Wendel

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