Digital BW, The Print

>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.

This sounds much like a method I use (I think it was posted here last
year but I don't remember who - sorry I can't give proper credit):

1) Add Hue/Sat layer but don't change anything yet.
2) Add Chan/Mix layer and do the usual things with it.
3) Back to Hue/Sat layer: move the Hue slider to get the effect you
want (can give red or yellow filter look, etc).
4) Flatten
5) Convert to grayscale mode


Regards,
Clayton


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