There seems to be something very wrong with the process as you've described it.
Apart from anything else, when setting the lightness to minus 100, you'll get a black screen - no info. Care to double check the steps and the process? BTW, I agree with everything that Godfrey said ... Shel "You meet the nicest people with a Pentax" > [Original Message] > From: P. J. Alling > Unless there's something horribly wrong with an image I don't "use" > layers. In photoshop I convert to b&w by first optimizing the color > image as much as I can. Then I use this method. > > 1. Create a new adjustment layer "Hue/Saturation" > 2a. Set Hue to -180 > 2b. Set Saturation to +100 > 2c. Set Lightness to -100 > 3. Change Mode to Lab Color, (if asked, yes do discard the layer). > 4. In channels delete layer a. > 5 Convert to gray scale. > > Adjust curves or brightness/contrast for fine adjustments. > > This is the easiest method I've found, (thank Cotty, for posting it here > a while ago). that gives very good results.
