Digital BW, The Print

Well, I guess is just one more trick to store in the bag:)

I have set up a b&w action with preset curves and channel mixing 
settings and even though it gets everything close, I put everything 
on adjustment layers and always go back and tweak things a bit... 
just a tiny bit seems to make a big difference... why I don't think 
preset tools are ever the best choice... nice to have a quick look 
tool though...

mark

PS  With CS I find that Levels are almost never needed!  Just pop up 
the realtime histogram and make your expansion adjustments using 
curve endpoints and then tweak gamma with the curve in between.

...
> (OK, it just occured to me that you could do the same thing by 
creating an 
> action that saves all the steps you do when converting an image to 
B&W.  So 
> maybe this isn't so cool after all).
> 
> BTW, for those of you who don't have CS yet, both the Match Color 
and 
> Replace Color tools work surprisingly well in general.