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Re: B&W Conversion Techniques

2008-01-24 by Steve F

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Grant" 
<gphoto2@...> wrote:
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> For those that have CS3 you have the option of using the b/w 
adjustment
> layer.  Gives you all the flexibility of what you do in Lightroom.
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> Also for those that use CS3 you can do the conversion in Camera Raw 
in a
> similar fashion.   
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> snip

Paul,

Do you have any thoughts about the relative merits of doing the 
conversion to B&Won the raw file via ACR or taking the color image 
out of the raw converter and into PS and use the new B&W Adjustment 
layer? Any thought about when one might give better results that the 
other?

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