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RE: [Digital BW] Re: What is best: RGB 16 bits or grayscale?

2004-08-14 by Nelson Ricciardi

Tom

Thank you.

That´s what I believe. But since my experience is almost zero with black and
white work, I´d better follow the advice of you guys that know better.

Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Husband [mailto:thusband@...] 
Sent: sábado, 14 de agosto de 2004 18:25
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: What is best: RGB 16 bits or grayscale?


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Nelson 
Ricciardi" <nelson_@r...> wrote:
> Folks.
> 
> For general Photoshop editing, what is the best thing to do?
> 
> - leave the image as a RGB 16 bit black and white, do all the
editing and
> convert to grayscale at the end
> 
> Or
> 
> - Convert as soon as possible and edit in grayscale mode?
> 
> By editing I mean levels and curves and some dodge and burning.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nelson

I would think leaving it in RGB 16 bit as long as possible would be 
better.

Tom




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