Digital BW, The Print

Hello Keith,

>I've been looking at some of the various ways of producing black 
>and white from colour and wondered if there were any ways to get 
>better results if, for some reason, you had to start with JPEG 
>colour originals (8 bit RGB).
> 
>It seems that if you are using Photoshop to do the conversion to 
>black and white, then you get a better result by turning the 8 bit 
>image to 16 bit first. 

I have tried this with my pocket digicam images and it does seem to
help some to lessen badly combed histograms.  It isn't the same as a
true 16 bit image, but every little bit helps so it's standard
procedure for me now.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm