Digital BW, The Print

The discussion on plug-ins for grayscale conversion of RGB images is 
an interesting one. A couple of weeks ago, I shared in our 
GoodiesNEWS newsletter one of the workflows we use for converting to 
grayscale which Gary Rogers, of R9, first showed me a couple of 
months ago. It's fairly simple, but does a wonderful job in terms of 
preserving a good black while keeping smooth tonal gradations and no 
going flat.  We converted the workflow into a Photoshop Action which 
we are sharing FREE of charge. You can just go to: 
http://inkjetgoodies.com/main/psactions.htm to download it and 
install it. Please note that it is a free service to the community 
and we will not be supporting it beyond giving it away.

Essentially it does the following:

Step 1. Create New Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer with the 
following properties:
Mode: Saturation
Hue: -180
Saturation: -100
Lightness: +100

Step 2. Convert LAB Color. Choose the Flatten Option if given.

Step 3. Open the Channels Window and delete Channels 'A' and 'B'

Step 4. Convert to Grayscale.

There are literally dozens of ways to convert an image. Many are 
very good. This is the one that has given us the best consistent 
results day in and out. And it didn't cost a thing!

On a side note, Septone is now shipping!

Good Luck

Gregory Schern
InkjetGoodies.com
Moab Paper Co.

info@...

Printed on Entrada Fine Art yet? What are you waiting for, it's 
awesome!

Sounds great! When I hit download however nothing happens it takes me to a
page with code on it.
I'm on a Mac are there an issues there?

Sue

Sue Tallon Photography

i just downloaded it with explorer on a mac by holding
down the mouse botton and hit "save link as...",
safari would not work and hitting link alone didn't
work either. the action does work.

--- Sue Tallon <suetallon@...> wrote:
> Sounds great! When I hit download however nothing
> happens it takes me to a
> page with code on it.
> I'm on a Mac are there an issues there?
> 
> Sue
> 
> Sue Tallon Photography
> 
> 
> 

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When I hit download however nothing happens it takes me to a
> page with code on it.
> I'm on a Mac are there an issues there?
> 
> Sue


Hold down the Option key as you click link!

Anyone else not able to download the file? I tried in OSX Safari, 
Netscape, and IE. Can someone who has successfully downloaded it please 
post it in the files section of this e-group or e-mail it to me 
directly.
Thanks,
Mark
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 04:49 PM, Gregory Schern wrote:

> The discussion on plug-ins for grayscale conversion of RGB images is
> an interesting one. A couple of weeks ago, I shared in our
> GoodiesNEWS newsletter one of the workflows we use for converting to
> grayscale which Gary Rogers, of R9, first showed me a couple of
> months ago. It's fairly simple, but does a wonderful job in terms of
> preserving a good black while keeping smooth tonal gradations and no
> going flat.  We converted the workflow into a Photoshop Action which
> we are sharing FREE of charge. You can just go to:
> http://inkjetgoodies.com/main/psactions.htm to download it and
> install it. Please note that it is a free service to the community
> and we will not be supporting it beyond giving it away.
>
> Essentially it does the following:
>
> Step 1. Create New Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer with the
> following properties:
> Mode: Saturation
> Hue: -180
> Saturation: -100
> Lightness: +100
>
> Step 2. Convert LAB Color. Choose the Flatten Option if given.
>
> Step 3. Open the Channels Window and delete Channels 'A' and 'B'
>
> Step 4. Convert to Grayscale.
>
> There are literally dozens of ways to convert an image. Many are
> very good. This is the one that has given us the best consistent
> results day in and out. And it didn't cost a thing!
>
> On a side note, Septone is now shipping!
>
> Good Luck
>
> Gregory Schern
> InkjetGoodies.com
> Moab Paper Co.
>
> info@...
>
> Printed on Entrada Fine Art yet? What are you waiting for, it's
> awesome!
>
>
>
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>
>
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i feel like a fool for asking this, but what folder do you put the Action 
into, in Photoshop 7, and how do you access/apply the Action, once it is in there?

thank you!

k a y


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Kay,

Don't feel dumb.  It isn't very intuitive.

Put the downloaded action in the Photoshop->Presets->Photoshop 
Actions folder.  At least in PS6 that's what you do.  If PS is open 
close it and restart it.  Then see the history and Actions Tab?  To 
the right there's an arrow.  Click that and select Load Actions.  
Find your action, select it and hit load.  That's it.

Open your image, click on the Action tab and look for Goodies_v1.01, 
select the arrow next to it so it's pointing down and then select 
Grayscale Conversion.  Then at the very bottom you'll see an arrow 
pointing to the right,  select it and you're off.

Tom

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
DigitalLipothymy@a... wrote:
> i feel like a fool for asking this, but what folder do you put the 
Action 
> into, in Photoshop 7, and how do you access/apply the Action, once 
it is in there?

> 
> thank you!
> 
> k a y
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

In a message dated 8/28/2003 10:56:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
thusband@... writes:
Kay,

Don't feel dumb.  It isn't very intuitive.
:)

i followed your instructions, and it appears to be working fine! i will
have to run a print or two tomorrow, and test it out

thank you
K a y


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i tried holding down the OPTION key while clicking on "Mac Download" , but still
no luck. what is downloaded is a file with the following enclosed:


StuffIt!\ufffd
??B3\ufffdO\ufffd
\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdv\ufffd4?\ufffd?\ufffd\ufffd!y$\ufffd{\ufffddt3\ufffdt\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffda\ufffdL?\ufffdh??z*&"\ufffd\u0731\ufffds*_\ufffd*KI\u032fa[RWwk\ufffd\ufffd}\ufffd\ufffd|??\ufffd1?\ufffdm1/2\ufffdAw\ufffd??* c\ufffdrw\ufffdE\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd?e\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd~\ufffd\ufffd
)???b\ufffd1a?f?m1/4K\ufffd@\ufffd5\ufffd$9\ufffd?\ufffds*\ufffd?U\ufffd\ufffdTO\ufffdZ*Y\ufffdw*\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd<\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd]-\ufffd\ufffd[\ufffd{\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd?a\ufffd
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4\ufffd<^\ufffdL\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd5u\ufffd?o\ufffd?*\ufffdW\ufffd/\ufffd\ufffdO\ufffd\ufffdB\ufffdj\ufffd\ub7d7-\ufffd?oq\ufffd\ufffdmy\ufffd\ufffd6\ufffdW\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd}\ufffdJ&ukg\ufffd\ufffd?zv\ufffd\ufffdK\ufffd8\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd???\ufffd/\ufffd\ufffdWU

i tried downloading the WINDOWS version and had no problem.
BUT i am running MAC OS9.2 and this is what I need.
any other suggestions/advice on how to download for MAC would be appreciated

thanks.

Peter Serling

John Vitollo wrote:

> When I hit download however nothing happens it takes me to a
> > page with code on it.
> > I'm on a Mac are there an issues there?
> >
> > Sue
>
> Hold down the Option key as you click link!
>
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