Bob, I have found the lightroom beta. The greyscale mixer is a big improvement over the channel mixer. Also found the Exposure demo and the Photoshop CS3 beta. The CS3 beta includes a new adjustment layer with the greyscale mixer from lightroom.
Now I have to many options :) Toine On 12/17/06, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting my best general B & W conversions from Adobe's Lightroom > beta. > > If you have money to spend, Alien Skin Software's Exposure is really > great. It not only does B & W conversions, it lets you emulate the > look of a bunch of specific film stocks. If you like the Tri-X look, > this software app will let you mimic it very effectively. Go to: > > http://www.alienskin.com > > You can download demo versions of their software that are fully > functional for 30 days. > > Bob > > > On Dec 16, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Toine wrote: > > > I'm experimenting with several techniques for B&W renderings. I tried > > the channel mixer. At the moment I'm experimenting with the adobe > > primer: > > http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html > > Most exposures give nice results and impressing Epson R2400 prints. > > I fail to get the results I used to get with tri-x and orange or red > > filters. Most difficult is creating a dramatic sky which was easy > > using a red filter: > > http://leende.net/galleries/trix.htm > > Do I need to tweak my exposure settings, RAW conversion or use orange > > and red filters. Would you like to share your B&W conversion secrets? > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
