Digital BW, The Print

Everyone seems to have their fave color->greyscale
conversion technique, and I do too.  I have tried all
of the ones in PS7 and several other techniques I
found in PS technique sites.  I have settled on the
Russell Browns' technique which seems to give me more
control over the conversion.  I also use the UT2 CFS
from MIS on my 1280.

Jerry in Houston

 <<Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 06:19:04 -0000
   From: "deskofjk" <jkaplan@...>
Subject: Using UT2:  RGB to grayscale to RGB?

I'm starting with an RGB full color image and I want 
to convert it 
to black and white and print after loading Roarke's  
UT2 curves.  If 
I just desaturate the color to get a black and white 
image, there's 
still information in each color channel which seems to

screw up the 
curves (when I load them and print I get a useless 
image, ie few 
grays, heavy black, white, etc).  I can solve this 
problem by going 
to image ->convert to grayscale and then image-> 
convert to RGB and 
then loading the curves. But I understand that I'm 
losing image data 
by converting back and forth between RGB and grayscale

images.  
What's the best way to convert to grayscale if I'm 
starting with 
with a color RGB image and want to print a black and 
white image in 
RGB mode using UT2 curves?

Great Thanks, Jonathan>>