Hi

I've not noticed a lot of difference - I experimented with this a while ago
and didn't find much to choose. After looking into it further, I decided
that for black and white, the best colour space to start in was one with the
same gamma as the greygamma2.2 space I used for some of my b/w editing - but
that would include my most likely sources anyway (A98 or sRGB). I notice
that Colourmatch is a 1.8 space, so conversions might show differences in
greyscale results from that rather than the gamut?

Since I'm not going down the same printing route, I'd be interested to hear
if this would apply in your case... A word from our gods of Colour perhaps
:-))  :-))

I found the choice of colour to BW conversion method far outweighed any
effects from the colour space, since I'd choose a particular method for the
subject and effect desired. I've put together a collection of many different
methods with examples at <http://northlight-images.co.uk/bwfromcol.html>
(any feedback appreciated)

My own choice would be not to do a thing to the image in ACR and do the b/w
conversion in PS, since by desaturating in ACR you have already really
decided to go one route, and just desaturating the image is (imho) rarely
the best process.


bye for now   

Keith Cooper

Northlight Images
http://northlight-images.co.uk
Photography - Digital Imaging - Apple Mac Consultancy

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