Digital BW, The Print

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
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>You think B&W is complicated, try color. ;-)


Good point!

I have begun using Picture Window Pro instead of Photoshop, although I am 
taking a PS class so I'm learning it too.
In PWP when I convert a color image to monochrome, I can apply a Wratten 
filter number to it, which I think is very nice.  And it seems to have very 
good controls for color and related manipulations.

Ciao,
Don



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>Unless you're shooting and scanning B&W film, this still leaves the issue of
>how to convert from color to B&W in the first place. If you have Photoshop,
>the Channel Mixer is a good general tool to use for the conversion, followed
>by judicious use of Curves to optimize the contrast range. If you have other
>editing software that doesn't have the equivalent of Channel Mixer, you can
>generally accomplish the same sort of thing by manipulating the levels of
>the individual color channels before doing the usual color to B&W
>conversion. You often have to yank the individual color curves around pretty
>drastically to get a good B&W image, much more than you'd ever dare do for a
>color image.
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>Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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