Digital BW, The Print

Lincoln,

since you are trying these different approaches, consider this: Make a grayscale file in 
which you layer several conversions that are duped/flattened/converted to gray from 
your RGB file. You may choose different areas of the final picture to come from 
different  gray-conversion layers by simply using masks. When you are happy with 
the look, simply dupe and flatten again and there is your printing file. 

And don't forget that any conversion to grayscale is affected by your settings in the 
color spaces of Photoshop (it's easy to forget because they are not visible when you 
simply choose "grayscale"). You can save a whole lot of histo-wrecking by choosing a 
gray space close to your printing space.

good luck-


Antonis

<and for even more  tweaks, consider making your RGB channels into layers - or 
making channels into masks for layers etc...  loads of holiday fun there!>


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "outdoornm" <linc@z...> 
wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Russel's method looks pretty exciting. I like the extra control by 
> using the diff' layers.  The holidays will allow me some time to 
> experiment with this.