Digital BW, The Print

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

>>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.
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>>
>
>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.
>
>  
>
Actually, if you really want to just use PhotoShop's built in tools,  I 
like converting to Lab Color and using the lightness channel.. It keeps 
skintones a bit lighter.. Of course, as many have asaid, the 
channel-mixer is an option as well.


 
Keith Krebs

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