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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: howard smith on March 16, 2005, 04:47:30 pm

Title: PK Sharpener and B&W
Post by: howard smith on March 16, 2005, 04:47:30 pm

T-Max?

Title: PK Sharpener and B&W
Post by: Jonathan Wienke on March 16, 2005, 08:25:18 pm

You need to stay in RGB anyway if you use Photoshop to apply a tint/tone to the B&W image. I usually use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with Colorize checked and settings somewhere around 32/16/0 for a sepia tone. But you can make a pretty wide variety of looks simply by tweaking the hue and saturation values.

Title: PK Sharpener and B&W
Post by: ashapiro on March 16, 2005, 03:55:26 pm

Since PK sharpener works only on RGB images, what is the best workflow if, ultimately, you want a B&W image?

Title: PK Sharpener and B&W
Post by: on March 16, 2005, 06:13:52 pm

Just convert to RGB, sharpen, and then convert back to grayscale, if that's what you're working in.

Michael

Title: PK Sharpener and B&W
Post by: ashapiro on March 16, 2005, 09:01:47 pm

OK. I am using a Canon 20D. After converting in Adobe Camera RAW I then have an RGB image which I can then capture sharpen. I then convert to monochrome (desaturate or channel mixer) and manipulate, but I have to stay in RGB to do the output sharpening. Then, finally I convert to grayscale in order to print (either with QTR or through the Epson driver on my 2200). Does that sound right?