> > It's funny how many digital B&W photographs have this "metal greyish -" or > > "silver greyish" apperance! > > I noticed the same thing actually, especially with skin tones. > At first I > thought it was black and white points which needed adjusting, > but I couldn't > seem to duplicate film quality black and white with the ist D.
You just need to get better with Photoshop. > Here were some ist D samples (shot in colour, then greyscaled, > then black > and white points adjusted slightly): > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2755874 > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2755852 They seem nice, but a little flat on my screen. A Curves layer and then some light work with masking would spruce them up. > Now a potentially silly question- is there a way to apply a > red or green > contrast filter to a black and white image in Photoshop, > Paintshop, or > ACDSee, and how would I go about it? In Photoshop, you can adjust the balance of the channels through the Channel Mixer and simulate nearly any kind of filtration. On your RGB image, open an Adjustment Layer with the Channel Mixer tool. Click the Monochrome button. Leave the Green and Blue channels at 0, adjust the Red slider ... you're seeing your RGB image purely from the Red channel, as if there was a variable density Red filter in front of the lens. Etc. Godfrey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
