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RE: [Digital BW] White balance and B&W

2004-11-08 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: Roger Howard [mailto:rogerhoward@...]
>
> Agreed - but just to be literal, white balance settings *do* affect B&W
> conversion; whether they are a major factor just depends on how you're
> doing the conversion. Yeah, I usually use extreme moves in Channel
> Mixer, often with an additional Curves adjustment layer beneath it. But
> the right WB setting to preserve the right channel separation (before
> you mix them back down) is important, in my experience.

I don't think WB does anything at all to channel separation--it just applies
gains to the three channels. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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