Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Antonis 
Ricos" <antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
> 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.

Hello Antonis,

Your  "histo-wrecking" comment makes me wonder if it is not 
better to back up and do things in the color channels before I 
convert to greyscale.   I recently tried to make "improvements" in 
the Tone Curves of my scanner prescans, but only managed to 
change my beautifully smooth r, g's and bees into  storm 
wreckage. :-(  This learning curve gets steeper by the day.  :-)

I think the secret is to "just do it" until I get a feel for what works. 
My only fear is that I will lose a lot of info in the process.  Those 
wrecked histograms don't necessarily show in the monitor 
image, but I can imagine that a large print  will bring any 
weaknesses into view.

    Happy Holiday!

                                            Lincoln 
 
> 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.