How can I make this B&W more strking

[thomas_sullivan]

heh...yeah, Imaging Factory's B&W converter is what I use. Your CBW confused me because I googled what you typed.........sheesh, you should have seen the stuff I got.

 

Anyhow, yeah, when I do black and white conversions in Photoshop from image files I do find Imaging Factory's CBW to work very nicely. If I start from a RAW file I do all my converting in ACR, though.

 

I have tried numerous methods, and the one thing that stands out amongst them all are the ones that allow colors and hues to be introduced during the conversion (somewhat, but even more so, like contrast filters on lenses when shooting B&W film). Once I started seriously paying attention to that in my conversion, I started liking the results a lot more than before.