touch-up: color or b&w ??

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James Bass
Nov 19, 2003
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I have a color image that I would like to do some touch-up on (color correction, clean-up, etc), the end result will be printed in b&w. So my question is: is it better to do everything in color or in b&w ?

-thanks
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Geoff Jackson
Nov 19, 2003
I have a color image that I would like to do some touch-up on (color correction, clean-up, etc), the end result will be printed in b&w. So my question is: is it better to do everything in color or in b&w ?
-thanks

Do it in b&w then you don’t have to worry about colour correction.

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Geoff Jackson, Nottingham, UK.

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jrzyguy
Nov 20, 2003
with all respect…i disagree with Geoff. If you work in color (rgb or cmyk)…you have more controll over the depth and shadow. Then when you convert back to greyscale your B&W image should have more depth to it and more varience between the black, greys and whites.

thants just MHO
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I have a color image that I would like to do some touch-up on (color correction, clean-up, etc), the end result will be printed in b&w. So my question is: is it better to do everything in color or in b&w ?
-thanks

Do it in b&w then you don’t have to worry about colour correction.
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Geoff Jackson, Nottingham, UK.

www.gjphoto.f9.co.uk
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vizrosplugins
Nov 20, 2003
That depends on the Color->BW transformation. In most cases, the correction does not help too much in the final BW images.

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I have a color image that I would like to do some touch-up on (color correction, clean-up, etc), the end result will be printed in b&w. So my question is: is it better to do everything in color or in b&w ?
-thanks

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