Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "joshhackney" 
<joshhackney@...> wrote:
Josh which book is it in?  His Real World Camera RAW for CS or for 
CS2?  Or both?  Thanks

Joe


 
> Scott,
> 
> This is not a direct answer to your question, but you might be 
interested to try BW 
> conversions on RAW files from within Adobe Camera RAW.  In his 
book "Real World Camera 
> RAW", Bruce Frasier attributes a RAW BW conversion technique to 
Russell Brown that's 
> more sophisticated than just desaturating.  I'll put the "orange" 
filter technique in this 
> post.  He also lists "deep red", "blue", and "green" filter 
settings.
> 
> Set the saturation to -100
> Go to the calibration tab, and then set the following:
> shadow tint 0
> red hue +100
> red saturation -23
> green hue -100
> green saturation +100
> blue hue -35
> blue saturation +18
> 
> for "deep red", use the following:
> shadow tint -4
> red hue +100
> red saturation -100
> green hue +100
> green saturation +100
> blue hue -99
> blue saturation +3
> 
> 
> You can tweek from there.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Josh
> 
> --- In 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "scott_now_coming" 
> <scott_now_coming@> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone tried using the beta version of Adobe Lightroom for 
> > monochrome conversion?
> > 
> > Lightroom (so far) is only availible for the Mac, but I 
understand that 
> > the Greyscale Mixer is Lightroom is awesome.
> > 
> > Scott
> >
>