B&W Conversion

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I'm playing around with some work and thought "that'll look good in B&W" and preceded to think about the best way of doing it.

Somebody on here said something about "filtering the channels". I have to admit, when I switch off the red & blue channels it looks pretty good, but how do I get them out permanently so I can save it like this ?

I know I can desaturate it, but I keep hearing that's not the best way to do it.

Steve
 
I would also love to know the best way to convert to black and white, lots of magazines show you different ways but I am unsure which way looks better.
 
What package are you using.

I have CS3 and the new B&W conversion tool is excellent.
 
Theres a ton of different ways to get a B+W in photoshop, image desaturate is about the worst way.
You can use any of the channels, the channel mixer, greyscale, calculations, LAB colour, a gradient map etc etc etc!
Theres no right way and no wrong way, find a way that works for you and stick with it.
In CS3/4 the black and white ajustment panel is excelent, play around with the presets or sliders untill your happy.
In the earlier versions try the channel mixer, tick the mono box and play around with the sliders (try and keep the total to 100%)
If you have one channel you like, highlight that channel, go to image mode greyscale and click ok when it asks if you want to discard the other channels, it then worth going to image mode RGB and selecting that or you wont have some filters/options later. Wayne
 
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