Charles Dias <charlesbronsondias@hotmail.com> writes: > Some days ago in a brazilian photo list there was a discussion about > the right way to turn a color photo in a BW photo using photoshop > ... some member claimed that the grayscale function exists for this > purpose ... other member almost had a heart attack after reading that > messagens and claimed that the right way was manipulating the color > channels in a dozen of different way ... concluding, there was no > concense and now I´m very confused about that ... so, what is the > right way to do that??? This concept of the "right" way of doing artistic things should be taken out and shot, so it will stop bothering us :-). It depends, of course, on what results you want to achieve. I find I mostly end up using the channel mixer myself. I'm doing a little bit of color rendition adjustment, or else maybe I'm dealing with a badly underexposed blue channel that I want to get rid of the noise in, or something. If I've got a clean scan of a good color negative, I usually just do the simplest conversion -- unless I want to adjust the color renditions. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info
