Digital BW, The Print

What is Deadman's custom sharpener? Will it work in a
mac?I just got  PK sharpening but have not worked with
it much yet.I don't mind working in RGB foe
B&W.Francis Ford
--- Carl Schofield <scho@...> wrote:
> 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:
> 
> >
> >
> > Photokit sharpener works only on RGB images. So
> what is the best way
> > to apply it for black and white images?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> 
> 


		
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