Digital BW, The Print

Has any one tried Convert To B&W Pro?Its a plug in
thats supposed to be better that the channel
mixer.Francis Ford
--- "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@...> wrote:

> > From: jgm818 [mailto:jgm818@...]
> >
> > I recently read an article from,John Paul
> Caponigro and his use of
> > using the channels in photoshop.  He targeted each
> channel as
> > seperate layers and reduced there opacitiy and
> added a forth
> > lightness channel. He than created layer masks so
> he could apply
> > curves to each one.  I've been just turning the
> image to
> > monochromatic and adjusting the sliders each at a
> time, getting the
> > look I wanted.  Then I would use curves.  Is his
> way superior? or am
> > I totally of track here?  Jeff
> 
> It all depends upon the image. If I understand your
> descriptions correctly,
> his method allows a separate curves for each color,
> and your's doesn't.
> That's extremely versatile, but often unnecessary. I
> don't think there's any
> shortcut--you have to look at the channels in each
> image, and watch what
> happens as you mix them, and decide as you go along
> what techniques will be
> needed to pull out the particular detail you're
> trying to capture.
> Sometimes, the channel mixer is all you need;
> sometimes, it's useful to use
> Hue/Sat to pick out a narrow color range to
> manipulate (narrower than the R,
> G or B channel); and sometimes there's no
> alternative but to convert the
> channels into separate layers and manually paint the
> layer masks. It's an
> art.
> 
> --
> 
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@...
> 
> 

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