Digital BW, The Print

Who makes it?

Thanks, Valery Rizzo

Francis Ford wrote:

> 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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