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In Reply to: RE: B&W Effort posted by dancingseamonkey on June 19, 2017 at 18:57:49:
Photoshop has 2 paths to B&W from color.
Desaturate is easy and fast but maybe NOT what you want.
The OTHER photoshop verb is simply called 'Black and White'.
Using that function you can simulate many of the classic films of old or create something all-new.
For example? Some films are mainly blue sensitive. to get a correct tonal representation you may want to apply a YELLOW filter. I think those are ORTHO films.
PAN or PanChromatic films have better red sensitivity and produce s different image 'feel' when properly employed. Look up the popular Kodak film called Verichrome Pan. Nice.
Other films are ORTHO films and do not produce the same image when used side-by-side with PAN films.
Digital cameras are weird when converting to B&W and while a simple 'desaturate' may give good results, I prefer trying to mimic older styles.
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