Digital BW, The Print

I use Deadman's custom sharpener for sharpening 16 bit grayscale scans. 
  Results are as good as PK sharpening, but without the inconvenience of 
converting to RGB and the enormous file sizes.

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/links.html

Carl Schofield

On Mar 8, 2005, at 11:03 PM, aaashapiro wrote:

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> Photokit sharpener works only on RGB images. So what is the best way
> to apply it for black and white images?
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> One could scan in greyscale, then change mode to RGB, apply capture
> sharpening and then do all adjustments and finally output sharpening
> and then, before printing, convert back to greyscale.
>
> Or, one could scan in RGB, capture sharpen, convert to black and
> white through desaturation or channel mixer but keep in RGB until
> all adjustments are made, then output sharpen, convert to greyscale
> and print.
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> With digital camera capture one could follow the latter procedure
> after converting the raw file in rgb, or one could desaturate
> (presuming Adobe Capture Raw)prior to converting and then capture
> sharpen etc. with, again, the last step before printing being the
> conversion to greyscale.
>
> What workflows do people use? Have I omitted some possibilities?