PhotoRetouch Pro 8 grayscale conversion methods

[oeyvind]

Hope these screenshots will explain Binuscan Photoretouch Pro 8 grayscale conversion methods

These JPEG are tagged with sRGB color profile for WEB viewing.

This is the original RGB, I did run Auto Process RECO on it but with no sharpening applied:



The Grayscale Conversion screen:



Green (RGB) method



Intensity method



Lightness/Destaurate (HSL) method



Median method



Luma (Ycc) method



Luminance (Lab) method



Adaptive Luminosity method



Classic (bCP) method



So, which one you like?

Those interested in PhotoRetouch Pro, a demo can be downloaded from here

[Alex Tsai]

Luminance (Lab) method...

[John Lau]

[oeyvind]

John,

Thanks for sharing that plugin.

There's 101 ways to do black & white in Photoshop via plugins or combinations of its built in functions, however one must know that in Photoshop is very very easy to destroy colors when operated by novice.

What I shown are the resultants of the methods at default settings in PRP, if you noticed, one can tweak them to one's likings.

Anyway, what I'm trying to show is there's such app like PhotoRetouch Pro... CMYK is where this app. really shines.

[John Lau]

I don't think people willing to buy the PRP for the B/W convertion of its high price tag,
so I post this much cheaper solution plugin which its easy to affort.
For myself ,I like the PRP very much since its beta version and its Auto Deco is one of the amazing feature ,which can save a lot of time for color adjustment and always good result ,even I think I 'm very skillful of color adjustment for color images

Have you got it too?

[oeyvind]

A friend of mine is the distributor for Binuscan product in the region. Got a demo from him while in Malaysia last week.

Yes, Auto RECO is great... I see Photoshop did kinda copy several features from PRP. PRP has some unique editing tools such as selective editing etc.

One thing: it's very very easy to DESTROY colors in Photoshop, and you can't in PRP...

If one do lotsa printing, I will use PRP for sure, but for RGB... I think PS serves me ok for now.

[John Lau]

and you can try this :

http://www.outbackphoto.com/artofraw/raw_08/essay.html