Hi I've been looking at colour to black and white conversion methods and have a page on my web site comparing many different techniques. <http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/bwfromcolor.html> If anyone has any I've missed please do let me know...
I'd agree that the blue channel is invariably the noisiest. I've found a (small) bit of blur on that channel can help or you can do the same on the a/b channels in Lab. A lot depends on the actual images though. Using the colour noise reduction function when importing raw files (PS CS) can also help when converting later to B/W. I'm hoping to do quite a bit more on the site on digital black and white before long - but my pre-xmas London work has been extended so the site will have to wait :-)) Bye for now Keith Cooper =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
