Digital BW, The Print

I just scanned some old color negatives for a friend and converted them to
bw. Now I'd like to export the results back to disk so I can send them
along ... BUT when I open the exported, new named files in Explorer/Windows
Viewer they're still in color!!!! If I open them in Bridge ... they're bw
as they should be.

What to do except scream?

-Lew Schwartz


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Seems to be a bug. I used the

 Image Format: Original option

Since I had also elected to rename the output files, I expected jpg's to be
written to bw jpgs and tifs to be written to bw tif's, but no such luck.
The routine ran, but nothing happened.

-Lew Schwartz


On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716@...> wrote:

> I just scanned some old color negatives for a friend and converted them to
> bw. Now I'd like to export the results back to disk so I can send them
> along ... BUT when I open the exported, new named files in Explorer/Windows
> Viewer they're still in color!!!! If I open them in Bridge ... they're bw
> as they should be.
>
> What to do except scream?
>
> -Lew Schwartz
>


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Export as jpeg if they were raw originally you will get the original if that is what you expect. 

Paul

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On Jun 9, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716@...> wrote:

> Seems to be a bug. I used the
> 
> Image Format: Original option
> 
> Since I had also elected to rename the output files, I expected jpg's to be
> written to bw jpgs and tifs to be written to bw tif's, but no such luck.
> The routine ran, but nothing happened.
> 
> -Lew Schwartz
> 
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716@...> wrote:
> 
> > I just scanned some old color negatives for a friend and converted them to
> > bw. Now I'd like to export the results back to disk so I can send them
> > along ... BUT when I open the exported, new named files in Explorer/Windows
> > Viewer they're still in color!!!! If I open them in Bridge ... they're bw
> > as they should be.
> >
> > What to do except scream?
> >
> > -Lew Schwartz
> >
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> 
> 


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How did you "convert" them?  Lightroom, for example, just records all 
your changes in a file associated with the original, and applies those 
changes when you later view the image.  But the original file itself is 
not changed.  I think you have to do a "save as" to a new file name or 
format in order to get a single file incorporating the changes.

On 6/9/2013 5:14 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:
>
> I just scanned some old color negatives for a friend and converted them to
> bw. Now I'd like to export the results back to disk so I can send them
> along ... BUT when I open the exported, new named files in 
> Explorer/Windows
> Viewer they're still in color!!!! If I open them in Bridge ... they're bw
> as they should be.
>
> What to do except scream?
>
> -Lew Schwartz
>



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When you modify an image in LR, true, it's a non-destructive, but when you
use the export function to create a new image file, converted to another
file type or not, that new image will contain all the adjustments you made
in the editing module. This is how to make adjustments for use on the web.
That's why LR isn't a plain file type converter. It doesn't have a "Save as
...." option; you have to go through the export function to save all your
edits into a new file.

-Lew Schwartz


On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Kip Babington <cbabing3@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> How did you "convert" them? Lightroom, for example, just records all
> your changes in a file associated with the original, and applies those
> changes when you later view the image. But the original file itself is
> not changed. I think you have to do a "save as" to a new file name or
> format in order to get a single file incorporating the changes.
>
>
> On 6/9/2013 5:14 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > I just scanned some old color negatives for a friend and converted them
> to
> > bw. Now I'd like to export the results back to disk so I can send them
> > along ... BUT when I open the exported, new named files in
> > Explorer/Windows
> > Viewer they're still in color!!!! If I open them in Bridge ... they're bw
> > as they should be.
> >
> > What to do except scream?
> >
> > -Lew Schwartz
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>


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On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Paul Grant <studiopbg@...> wrote:

> Export as jpeg if they were raw originally you will get the original if
> that is what you expect.


If you export as a jpg, you'll get a jpg regardless of the original format.

-Lew Schwartz


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