Digital BW, The Print

There are MANY ways to do this.  Certainly all of them do not degrade the image.  And, some of them do.  If you work in digital, try comverting to b&w in RAW mode.
 
Tom Baker

Douglas Meeuwsen <lipshurt@...> wrote:

hmmm....this is new to me....can you explain why the other ways degrade 
the image? Will try this method right now...DM
On Sep 2, 2004, at 5:31 PM, Michael B. Askew wrote:

> The best way to convert to B/W is to change the image mode to Lab
> Color, then open the channels window, and throw away all but the
> lightness channel.  Then convert image mode to grey scale and edit
> from there.
>
> If so inclined, you can also adjust the RGB channels before
> conversion to lab color/grey scale to have b/w filter effects.  For
> example, if you edit the red channel, you can make it as if you
> applied a red filter, darkening blues, and vice versa.  Then you do
> the lab color/lightness channel/grey scale conversion.  It's clean
> and simple.  And it's the only way I know to not degrade an image in
> the process.
>
> Try it and let me know what you think.
>
>


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