Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gilvey
<mark@...> wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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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I'm new to the forum but have been doing Digital B&W since PS5. I have
been using Lightroom for a lot of my work latly and was wondering if
anyone here would be willing to share any conversion formula/receipts
for converitn in light room. What are the settings for T-Max or Agfa?



Thanks

Lonnie