Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As Greg mentioned using the desaturate command does a pretty decent job and gives you the added bonus of adding a little tone after your done. Another route,that I've been playing around with lately is Channel Mixer. Go to IMAGE ->ADJUST ->CHANNEL MIXER (I believe it's the 10th command down) Once the channel mixer dialogue box comes up click on MONOCHROME. This converts the image to B/W and by playing with the 3 sliders you can get a pretty good simulation of the effects that occur with using color filter on B/W film. For example ,if you have an image with with blue sky leaving the Red Channel at say,75% ,Green at 20%,andBlue at 5% you get the deep black skies that result from using a Red filter on the lens when shooting B/W film. Also,for more extensive Color->Black and White conversions there is a Photoshop plug-in that apparently does a much better job than PShop. I believe the program allows the user to input specific BW film types and then converts the colors in a similar fashion to how that film actually interprets a scene. Mark Tomalty