Digital BW, The Print

Hi Mohamed,

B/W Styler works well. I reviewed it a month or two back. There is a 
brief intro at:
http://photography.about.com/od/imageprocessing/gr/bwstyler.htm
and a fuller feature at 
http://photography.about.com/od/digital/ss/bwstyler.htm

If you just want to produce decent b/w from colour you don't need to buy 
anything of course. There are all sorts of fancy methods on the web (as 
well as over-straightforward ones that don't always give the kind of 
results I want.)

At http://photography.about.com/od/digital/ss/advbwconv.htm I do a 
step-by-step through the way I prefer using Photoshop. CS3 has a better 
tool for the spectral response, so if I upgrade to that I'd change part 
of my sequence.

I think BW Styler is worth getting if you want to make use of a fair 
range of its effects on a regular basis, but otherwise just use Photoshop.

Regards,

Peter

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mohamed ezz el-dine wrote:
> Dear Photographers,
> I'm an egyptian amateur photographer ..that's my first post to ur group ..
> I adore black and white  photography so much ..
> I wanted to ask about a program or filter that's specialized in black and white ..
> I found  "B/W Styler"  , a plugin filter for photoshop ..
> http://www.thepluginsite.com/products/photowiz/bwstyler/
> Please I want to know ur opinion before I buy it .. is it the best ?? or if there's a simmilar free filter ..??
> thanks alot ..
> ezz
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