Digital BW, The Print

I agree that The Imaging Factory has one of the best and easiest to 
use plug-ins.  I have several that I've tried and I use their's 90% 
of the time.  Anyone not wanting to actually purchase something and 
still get great results should try Russell Brown's method using the 
action he supplies.  It is great as well.

I just prefer to choose my film (my preference is usually Ilford) 
and filter settings with the infinite adjustments, but Russell's 
action is a very close second.

Ron

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Kip Babington 
<cbabing3@s...> wrote:
> I've been very pleased with Convert to B&W Pro from The Imaging 
Factory 
> - http://www.theimagingfactory.com/.  It's a Photoshop plug-in 
that lets 
> you apply the equivalent of color contrast filters (continuously 
> variable, and with adjustable intensity), adjust spectral response 
> (including a number of presets to match several popular films), 
adjust 
> "exposure", "enlarger time" and contrast (with steps from -1.0 to 
+5.0 
> in 0.1 increments.)  For an old darkroom guy, it struck me as the 
most 
> intuitive of the tools out there, although I recognize it's not 
doing 
> anything I couldn't learn to do with Photoshop's adjustments.  
There's a 
> 30 day trial available, if you're interested.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kip
> 
> John M. wrote, in part:
> 
> ><snip>
> >
> >Is the best route to immerse myself in techniques such as those 
> >presented by Russell Brown, or are there truly good 
tools/software 
> >that I should investigate as well?  I am interested in fine art 
> >landscape images primarily.
> >  
> >