On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:42:01 +0200, Dave wrote:
Certainly there are imagination and art in coloring a black and white image but I fail to see any sense in deleting the colors by converting a colored image to black and white.
Here are some reasons – you can probably think of more:
1)targeting a black and white publication.
2)otherwise meeting the demands of a customer
3)duplicating the look of older images
5)trying out cool new ideas.
6)using the black and white image for an effect in the final color image – an example would be making a detail or pattern in a color image clearly visible to the 10 percent or so of the population that are color blind.
In all the above cases, conversion is needed because black and white cameras are few and far between.
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Mike Russell –
http://www.curvemeister.com