Digital BW, The Print

My two cents:

In my workflow I maintain a "Master" file which includes all layers, 
local and global changes, but NOT sizing, sharpening, noise removal or 
flattening. The image file maintains its "native" resolution depending 
on whether it is a scan or original digital image. I always scan at the 
highest resolution of my scanner.

When I am ready to print, if I have sufficient resolution to resize and 
still have a print resolution of at least 275 - 280 dpi, I resize 
without interpolation. If I am printing larger, I interpolate with 
bicubic smoother interpolation when increasing the size.

Then I remove noise, sharpen, flatten and SAVE AS using a different 
file name. 

Just my way of working, but may be helpful.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Harris J Sklar 
<reflectionsbyharris@...> wrote:
>
> I have two questions for the group:
>  
> 1.  If you are resizing an image to make it larger, should the 
resizing be done before the conversion to B & W or after?
>  
> 2.  Should noise removal, if necessary, be done before or after 
resizing and before or after conversion to B & W. 
>