Digital BW, The Print

I often use this action--and the nice thing about it is that it leaves many 
options to change/tweak---color fill, curves,  levels, etc.  I sometimes 
insert one of a series of saved curves I found elsewhere---change the color 
fill, dodge/burn on the overlay layer.  There's much to be said for this 
nice action.  There is also a free action based on this you can find here
http://www.atncentral.com/download.htm  Scroll down to the b/w conversion 
section--choose the Gorman action---and you  might find others you might 
like to try here.

There is also Fred Miranda's b/w conversion on his site, Virtual 
PHotographer/OptikVerve labs has a free plugin that's very nice--color and 
black and white and you can set it up yourself--only 8 bit though. 
http://www.optikvervelabs.com/

Diane
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Diane B. Fields
picnic@...
photo site  http://www.pbase.com/picnic


<<Try this technique, in this web site: 
http://www.gormanphotography.com/gorman.html

it is listed under learning, November 2004.  Once you put it in CS2 under an 
action, it works
fine.  Go throught the steps and see if it works for you.  I tried a few 
methods and finally
settled on this one.

Martin