Black and White Photos

[kckong]

Ooops, so sorry to all for the formatting of the links in my previous post. The first two links work fine. The third one ie the one for down loading the action is <a href="http://weblog.slower.net/archives/3">http://weblog.slower.net/archives/3</a>

[garrison_k.]

I use channel mixer, as an adjustment layer, for photos I've worked on and cleaned up in color. As an adjustment layer, I often find myself going back to the channel mixer settings and re-tweaking or even applying my settings by dragging the layer to another image. I also commonly start with a b&w version right in the raw converter. There's just so much flexibility and is non-destructive, of course. The only downfall is that once you start tweaking this b&w raw copy, you've painted yourself into a corner in regards of no options going back to a color copy or further adjustment of your b&w settings.

[sam_motskin]

I use JP Caponigro's action. It's non destructive and very flexible. He creates a flattened copy and then sets up

layers from R,G, B and Luminance channels. You can then tweak layers opacity and the masks. I find it much more

flexible than any other tool in CS3.

It's free on Adobe's white pages site: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html

 

He has a tutorial there too. It says it's compatible w/CS2 but it works perfectly on my CS3