Digital BW, The Print

Did it fly right by me or hasn't anyone discussed their techniques  
for converting color to b&w? Urm...or maybe everyone shoots film on  
this list?

I've been using...more like learning two different, but similar methods:

LIGHTROOM
Adobe Lightroom offers two different ways to convert to greyscale:
	a. By reducing the saturation  of each color, you can then adjust  
the lightness of each to effect each color to be lighter or darker
	b. By clicking the Greyscale tab and doing, basically the same thing

PHOTOSHOP
I've been using Hue & Saturation adjustments layers by creating on to  
desaturate all the color (I call this layer "Film") and then below it  
I place another H&S adjustment layer to adjust the densities of the  
color to get the tone I want.

I must say, adjusting the brightness of each color to change the  
density of a given color, something seems wrong about this idea. Have  
you ever adjusted one the brightness in a Hue & Saturation on a color  
image? It's like taking the black point in the curves dialog and  
brightening it. Seems to me there might be a better way.

I have played around with channel mixing but it has only been  
"playing". Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?




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Mark Gilvey
The ImageWorks
Integrated Media Designer

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www.t-i-w.com





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