[Leica] Daffodils/BW from Colour

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Jim,
there's a bit of freeware from www.Photo-plugins.com called B/W 
conversion (PS-plugin for Windows) which is pretty versatile and even 
delivers profiles for a bunch of standard BW films. Well worth playing 
with, there are filter sliders for the whole colour spectrum not just 
RGB, you can add grain too, apply toning filters and adjust the gamma.
Great to play with and it works too - I was more than pleasantly surprised
Here are a couple of examples :
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/Glass_Left_Crop_edited_1  BW 
conversion of  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/Glass_Left_Crop_001
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/Iris_1_edited_1 BW Conversion 
of  http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/Iris_1_001
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/Yello_Lily_2_edited_1   from 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album150/Yello_Lily_2_001
It'sa lot faster than playing with channels too.
Douglas

Jim Nichols wrote:

> Philippe,
>
> I agree.  I have debated the differences between B&W images created in 
> PhotoShop from color images, and those obtained using B&W C41 film.  I 
> am beginning to believe that the B&W film has its advantages.  There 
> is only so much that you can do in PS, particularly from a digicam 
> image that lacks the "depth" of a true film image.
>
> Thanks for looking.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
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