At 18:25 30-07-2002, you wrote: > Hi folks, > > 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??? There is no 'universal right way'. The greysclae conversion and the desaturate command are simply the worst ways to do it. Possible ways: - go to lab mode and eleminate the a and b channels - use the channel mixer There are others, try some and find the most natural for yuo to do. Mário Filipe Pires marpirfv@individual.EUnet.pt mario_f_pires@netcabo.pt
