Digital BW, The Print

I've been using it for at least 3 years and couldn't function without 
it.  If you have B&W film and wet darkroom experience it will be about 
as familiar as new software can be, but much more powerful and 
convenient than you are used to.  For example, imagine that the color 
filters you use on your camera lens to adjust contrast are actually a 
single, continuously variable filter on which sliders control both the 
color and the density of the filter, while you watch the result on a B&W 
image.  Same with the exposure and print contrast sliders (calibrated to 
match Ilford Multigrade filters, but in 0.1 increments) - just slide 'em 
and watch what happens to the output.

I know it's just using Photoshop tools to do these things, and that I 
could in theory learn to do things directly without the cost of the 
plug-in, but I had enough other things to learn in moving from chemical 
to digital that having familiar controls for this aspect of the process 
was more than worth the cost.

When I first looked at it they had a 30 day free trial, and I bought 
after 3 days of use.  If they still have a free trial, why not just take 
a look.

Cheers,
Kip

imagemaker2600 wrote:

>I have just bought a set of UT7 inks and spongeless cartridges from 
>MIS for my 1280 in order to start printing some of my older stuff and 
>came upon a Photoshop plug-in called "Convert To BW Pro" in a 
>UK photography magazine. The software publisher appears to be in 
>the US. Has anyone used it? Recommend it?
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