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I'm trying to make a black and white image from a color file. Am I better
off using desaturate or changing the mode to grayscale (in photoshop)?? Thanks in advance |
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"Doug" wrote in message m... I'm trying to make a black and white image from a color file. Am I better off using desaturate or changing the mode to grayscale (in photoshop)?? Thanks in advance Best way is to use the channel mixer. Keep the image as an RGB and to print just make sure all colour profiles. Photoshop and printer are set the same and of course your monitor set up, you should then be able to get a perfect BW print. There are hundreds of write ups on this technique. |
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I'm trying to make a black and white image from a color file. Am I better off using desaturate or changing the mode to grayscale (in photoshop)?? grayscale sucks, desaturate is adequate, channel mixer takes some getting used to, but it gives you desaturated images of all three color channels, IOW, the red spectrum, green and blue, and you can try to replicate the effects of having used various filters. Also there are filters and actions you can get that can replicate familiar renderings of popular black and white films, tri-x, infrared etc. You can find links to some of them in the z-prophoto mailing list at yahoogroups.com |
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 01:55:19 -0000, "Bob"
wrote: Keep the image as an RGB and to print just make sure all colour profiles. Photoshop and printer are set the same and of course your monitor set up, you should then be able to get a perfect BW print. There are hundreds of write ups on this technique. But only keep it as RGB if the print you're going to make is from a printer connected to a computer. If the photo will be printed as a B&W on a printing press, then there's a whole 'nother list of concerns. |
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Doug wrote:
I'm trying to make a black and white image from a color file. Am I better off using desaturate or changing the mode to grayscale (in photoshop)?? Thanks in advance I'm not an expert (actually new to all of this), but here's something you may want to give a try. http://www.cybia.co.uk look for BW-Plus Filter (Fotomatic Series). Free plugin, so I don't figure you have much to loose. Tim |
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