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Subject: Desaturate or use Black and White option...?

DarkEdge opened this issue on Aug 21, 2007 · 6 posts
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DarkEdge ( ) posted Tue, 21 August 2007 at 9:31 PM · edited Sun, 11 August 2024 at 5:49 AM

Hi all.

Basically that, which one and why?

Thanks

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MissSage ( ) posted Fri, 24 August 2007 at 8:10 AM

B&W, much better results and I believe you retain more pixel information resulting in a better range of tones.

one5910 ( ) posted Sat, 25 August 2007 at 2:43 PM

i have a diculty to understand the wuestion but the links lead to beautyfull work 
the web can be heavy to manege because of all the transitions I suppose

bonestructure ( ) posted Sun, 09 September 2007 at 2:23 PM

I use both options. Depends on what I need it for. I also have a free plug in bundle, Photo Wiz Photo Freebies which has a black and white converter that doesn't change the mode from RGB. I find it extremely useful.

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jerr3d ( ) posted Fri, 14 September 2007 at 5:59 PM

Really i think it depends on the colors and tones of the original. Either technique could be better in that case. However, here is another way to make a B&W from a color photo that could produce better results Go to the RGB channel palette and click on the red, green and blue channels one at a time, which turns only that channel on. If you see a particular channel that has a nice B&W range 1) select all and copy 2) click on the top RGB channel to turn all the channels back on 3) switch to the layers palette and paste (which makes the channel from step 1 a new layer in B&W

amul ( ) posted Tue, 18 September 2007 at 1:44 AM

I prefer using the Channel Mixer's Monochrome option to either of these for converting to greyscale.

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