Digital BW, The Print

Patrick is right, although a TIFF file will usually be quite a lot  
larger than a Photoshop native PSD file.

I wonder if upscaling from 8 bits to 16 bits will improve your images  
or not. Your asking PS to "make up" pixel data, I think??

Alan

On Dec 20, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Stephen Kobrin wrote:

> Up to this point my inputs to B&W processing have been limited to
> scanned film and raw files. However, I have a new camera that does
> not have a raw option. Am I correct that the first steps in a JPEG
> workflow should be to save the file as tiff and then change the mode
> to 16 bit?
>
> Steve