Black and White Images

[engela]

<p>I use a Fujifilm S5000 digital camera and Adobe Business Edition for digital editing. My problem is the following: After capturing in colour, my pics are mostly just fine, but when I change it to b/w the images looses all it's sparkle and looks 'dead'. How can I fix that? Thank you.</p>

[steinarengelsen]

<p>I do not know your editing program, but very often it helps to increase contrast after converting to B&W, as the images might look a little dull without any adjustments made.</p>

<p>:)</p>

[patricklavoie]

<p>how do you convert them? big difference of doing just a simple grayscale conversion vs using better method like channel mixer (old way of doing it but still really good.. a bit difficult for some) or the new bw tool since CS3...</p>

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[William Kahn]

<p>Engela, what editing software are you using? Knowing that might help us provide some tips...</p>

[starvy]

<p>Contrast is always off when desaturating automatically. Think about a tool similar to channel mixing.</p>

[engela]

<p>Thank you all for the responses.<br>

Steinar: I will try out your suggestion, I'm sure it will help.<br>

Patrick: I'm just using the grayscale conversion... (now, I'm going to sound very stupid), what is a channel mixer?<br>

William: I'm using a very old program Adobe Business Edition. It does not even want to work on my new laptop, so I keep jumping between my old and new laptop.<br>

Starvy: What kind of tool are you referring to, as I'm a bit clueless regarding the channel mixing...?</p>

[patricklavoie]

<p>do you ahve lightroom 3 or photoshop? if so, have a look at there bw tools. easy and simple to use.</p>

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[riz]

<p>Engela,</p>

<p>Channel Mixer is another method for converting image to black and white. Its more effective option than others. People say that Red, Green, and Blue cumulative percentage should be 100 percent, but, I have broken this few times. In my opinion do not use the Contract of Channel Mixer.</p>

<p>Regards,</p>

<p>Rizwan</p>