Digital BW, The Print

During the past week I have had the great pleasure of processing around 300
images using the incredibly user friendly B&W Conversion software of the
Imaging Factory. Yes, I could have continued to use the standard Photoshop
conversion abilities as I have in the past, but found this software to be so
much faster and more intuitive, especially if one has worked in traditional
photo labs. However, I did find that to add further finesse (perhaps my own
style preferences) even after initially processing in RAW and Photoshop, I
inevitably returned to Photoshop CS for last minute fine tuning. With the
"final" B&W image, the burn and dodge tool came in very handy as did a few
others such as shadow/highlight and offset (under the exposure settings).
Some semblance of these and a few others in the software would be a valuable
add on.

Clarence W. Walker,   
Creative Expression Photography
http://www.creativeexpressiononline.com
Commercial, fine-art, and stock 
FineArtPhoto/Yahoo