Digital BW, The Print

George,

I haven't noticed image changes when converting monochrome channel mixer to grayscale by itself, but I have noticed that, with a stack of image layers and correction layers, there is a difference between Photoshop 6's "Flatten Image" command (in Windows XP) and manually flattening each layer into the one below successively to end up with a single layer. I have been surprised to see that Flatten Image makes a marked change in the screen appearance of the image while using CTRL-E from the bottom-up on a layer stack made no difference to the image. Maybe this is what you saw?

As to the greenish cast, has it ever looked a more neutral gray in daylight? It's not light reflected from something green in you outdoor setting, is it?

Frank
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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:57:36 -0000
   From: "glemasurier" <george.lemasurier@...>
Subject: Re: Am I crazy?

Clayton,

Yikes. My mistake. I just reread, too, and you do NOT say convert back to RGB 
for printing. Somehow, I made that assumption. I've been reading so many 
articles recently, I must have picked it up somewhere else.  Sorry. 

I wondered if converting to grayscale changes the values achieved in channel 
mixer or whatever other BW conversion method being used?

BTW, I've found your articles highly informative. I especially enjoyed the one 
on color settings and profiles. That's been quite helpful.

Cheers,
George