Digital BW, The Print

> From: flyfishingusa2002 [mailto:tflyfish@...]
>
> You guys really need all of the facts. The easist way and really
> most effective to get a B/W using photoshop is to open your RAW
> image and turn the saturation down to zero.

If you turn the saturation down in the Camera Raw plugin, the remaining
controls give you a fairly limited ability to adjust the weighting of the
different colors.

The best way I've found is to create a gray proof setup, so that the image
appears on the screen even though it's still RGB. Then, you can yank the
underlying colors all over the place with any of the color adjustment tools,
and watch the B&W image change. In outdoor shots, for instance, it's often
very useful to darken the sky, which can be done by selecting the cyan or
blue color range in Hue/Saturation and turning the lightness way down.
Hue/Saturation lets you grab a narrow range of colors to manipulate,
something that even the channel mixer doesn't let you do.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...