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Old March 5th 05, 06:44 AM
Ben Rosengart
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:28:00 -0800, Skip M wrote:

Nice shots,


Thank you.

did you shoot them in greyscale, or convert from a color file?


I shot in RAW, then used the lightness channel in LAB mode.

Speaking of which -- here is my evidence that the lightness channel
is not the same as desaturation:

http://narcissus.net/blackandwhite/lightness.jpg
http://narcissus.net/blackandwhite/desat.jpg

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