On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:15:33PM -0500, Richard wrote: > Okay, Thanks to all. > > Filters->Colors->Decompose > Found LAB, and did the delete A&B to get the Light Channel, > > Q. Since the original image was a Color / Infrared shot (digital) > would the best was to get all the detail of Gray/IR is using Decompose? > > After applying auto levels, you have gray scale. > that should not have happened. auto levels on a color image does not yeild a grayscale unless you started with one. i am fairly sure about this.
> My understanding is that going to Gray scale by itself, you lose 16bit to > 8bit. > So, Decompose would be better? > decompose gives a grayscale, it just gives a smarter one than desaturate or changing the mode alone. carol gimp-1.0 _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
