Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim that is a very popular aspiration of course. I don't know what controls are available in your Elements program but one common approach for bw conversion is to vary the percentages of each colour channel, red, green blue, that are used to make your grey version. There are a lot of other options in Raw and Photoshop, as well as third party plug-ins as you no doubt have guessed. Regarding the haze, I think you need to tackle that on the camera. While you can simulate some filter effects afterwards that is not the same as using the filters on the camera. I had a quick look with Google on the subject. Try a search for elements black and white conversion. It looks like there are tutorials and discussions out there that may give you some ideas. This digital stuff is addictive. There is a lot to learn, just like a wet darkroom but at the same time an enormous range of possibilities. 2009/2/2 Jim Nichols <jhnichols@lighttube.net> > I have been looking at various ways to show digital images as B&W. Many of > the images I see on the LUG gallery come close to film images, but I have > not been getting to that point. This was made with my E-510 and Elmarit-R > 28/2.8 as a RAW image and converted to B&W, then sepia, in Elements 6.0. I > know that there are specialty converters available, but have not tried them > as yet. If anyone has suggestions, please comment. > > One local problem is the haze level and lack of blue sky for contrast. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Modern+Services.tif.html > > Comments and critiques welcomed. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff Weather is here, wish you were beautiful