Digital BW, The Print

What I've been doing lately is to use different BW conversions for different parts of the image.

So, instead of being stuck with, say, an orange filter on your film camera, that globally affects the image, you can use different filtration depending on what's in the image. A bit more red for the sky, a bit more blue for the dirt road and grass paddocks in my back roads shots, for example.

So I've been duplicating the image and doing different channel mixer BW conversions on each one, making a selection of the area I want with that conversion, copying that selection to a new layer and dragging that layer onto the master image.

It's so great to be able to do this with digital:)

Richard
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