Digital BW, The Print

Hi Bob...er, Bill ;-)

> It's not so complicated, really, although I think I may have
> unintentionally
> confused things (the first time, really, I swear!!  ;^)

Phew!

> The "better rendering of skin tones" actually refers to converting color
> images to B&W,

OK, that's what I thought you were talking about from the content, but I got
the impression you believed it worked converting B&W images scanned in RGB
as well, source of my confusion.

> which is what I believe the PS convert to greyscale channel
> mix is based on.  In this case, we are using the same canned
> channel mix to
> go from our RGB scan of a B&W image to a GS file, which, as you and others
> have pointed out, may not give the best results as a custom mix.

Ah, why would you do that?  The mix is done for a different purpose...as you
said, converting color to B&W...not converting a color scan of a B&W to B&W
;-)

> There, I've made it all clear, right?  ;^)

Yep, sounds like we're on the same page.

Regards,

Austin