Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Todd,

Of course I did not intend to use the Techno-Geek adjective with a negative
connotation, it was said with loving kindness and mutual respect... ;-)

I understand what you are saying. I thought that because all three channels
were mixing that somehow we might be preserving more that the 256 shades of
gray.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Flashner" <tflash@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Monochrome RGB vs. Grayscale Printing


> on 2/16/02 10:05 AM, mkravit wrote:
>
> > Utilizing the Colorbyte Software ImagePrint 4 RIP I find that I have
> > the option of printing with guadtone (hex) inks as either RGB or
> > Grayscale image files.  That is, I can scan a negative in RGB mode as
> > most people do, convert it to b/w using the channel mixer, but
> > continue to save the image as a RGB file.
> >
> > Can anyone see an advantage to this approach? I am not a digital-
> > techno-geek ;-) and as such tend to simplify thing photographically
> > as to, do they work or not. Perhaps Austin or some of out
> > other "engineering types" could provide some understanable
> > justification either for against leaving files as RGB and printing
> > them as such.
>
> Mike,
>
> I hate to answer the call of the digital-techno-geek, as I don't even have
a
> spectrocam, let alone a spectrocam pocket protector, but the only
advantage
> I can see is the ability to keep your channel mix adjustment in place as
an
> adjustment layer, so you can reedit it later, perhaps for another paper,
or
> size, to change the feel, etc. IOW, for guys who hate to commit. ;-)
>
> But once you've made your channel mix adjustment all channels are the same
> at that point, so staying in RGB just has you maintaining a file size
three
> times as great.
>
> Todd
>
>
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