On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:54 PM, Boris Liberman wrote:
I agree 100% on both points. One problem I've seen frequently is
that the
quality of the color image has not been maximized before the
conversion is
begun.
Shel, now you're talking ;-). In fact, all this time I was doing my
b/w conversions based on the exactly opposite assumption. Convert
to b/w as soon as possible, then go about maximizing the quality of
the image itself...
The question that comes to mind is "What is meant by optimizing the
quality of the color image?" When doing RAW conversion for B&W
rendering, "optimizing" the quality isn't the same as making a
perfect color image, to me. I define it as 'make sure there is
adequate data in all three channels to work with in rendering to B&W'.
Godfrey
