Digital BW, The Print

Hi Cara!

If you are going into this with any seriousness you need to learn 
what you are doing... at least to some level.  You also need a good 
tool to use.  Photoshop is of course prefered, but costs huge 
dollars.  GIMP is free (!) and nearly as powerful.

Here is a good article about converting to b&w using GIMP (it's a 
good primer for photoshop users too):

http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke/photography/articles/gimp/Color2BW/

a google search will get you to a site to download GIMP from.  It is 
available for all platforms.

Have fun!  (it really is fun:)

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Cara Curreri" 
<ctb1206@y...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am relatively new to digital photography and have a dumb 
question. 
> I would like to take a digital (color) image and print it as a b & 
w.
>  How is this accomplished?  I have a Fuji FinePix 3800, 3.2 mg 
pixels
> camera. 
> 
> Is this accomplished thru software?  If so, what product?  I don't
> have adobe photoshop.  Is there something relatively cheap (s/w
> package) that could be downloaded or shareware that accomplishes 
this
> easily?
> 
> P.S. I have a HP 7350 Photojet printer that I am very happy with to
> print these out on.  
> 
> Any and all advice appreciated!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Cara