On 6/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: >>>>>>>>>>>>> >From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Recently at ImagingUSA2003 in Las Vegas, Gary Rogers of R9 (the brains >behind Septone) showed us one of the workflows for Grayscale conversion of >RGB images that he uses. We found it to be far superior to the standard >conversion and thought it would be helpful to share it. >Step 1. Flatten Image >Step 2. Create New Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer with the following >properties: >Mode: Saturation >Hue: -180 >Saturation: -100 >Lightness: +100 >Step 3. Convert to LAB Color. Choose the Flatten Option if given. >Step 4. Open the Channels Window and delete Channels 'A' and 'B' >Step 5. Convert to Grayscale. > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >Hi Cotty,
Hi, >I didn't understand the step 2: It's alright mate, neither did I. > >What is the difference of use a new adjustment layer as saturation mode >and put the >saturation at -180 AND use Ctrl+Shift+U (Desaturate) at once? I'm asking >this 'cause if we >set a layer as 'saturation mode', we only manage the saturation. So, >don't matter what we >do w/ other controls, like hue and lightness 'cause layer is only for >saturation. > >I've made a test w/ Hue/Sat. layer (as shown here) and a Desaturate + Lab >color (Channel >lightness) and the result is the same. Doesn't surprise me at all. In fact I only used the above method once but for all the work it took, I tried a similar shot desaturated and then adjusted in curves and it was just as nice, so frankly I can't be bothered with all the messing around ;-) >[]'s, >Carlos Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
