Computer Graphics with Photoshop - touch-up: color or b&w ??

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touch-up: color or b&w ??

James Bass

2003-11-19, 11:01 pm

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

Geoff Jackson

2003-11-19, 11:01 pm

> 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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Tacit

2003-11-19, 11:01 pm

>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 ?

Will you ever use the image in color?

If not, then do your work in B&W. I have found that working on images in the
color mode that image is ultimately destined to be reproduced in saves a lot of
aggrevation usually along the way. (I say "usually" because from time to time
there are certain tasks that are best accomplished in some specific image
mode--for example, starpening a poor-quality original that's destined to be
reproduced in CMYK is sometimes easier in Lab than in CMYK--but it's a good
general rule nonetheless.)

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jrzyguy

2003-11-19, 11:01 pm

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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jj

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> Do it in b&w then you don't have to worry about colour correction.
>
> --
> Geoff Jackson, Nottingham, UK.
> gj.photo@REMOVETHISntlworld.com
> www.gjphoto.f9.co.uk
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>
>

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2003-11-20, 12:56 pm

That depends on the Color->BW transformation. In most cases, the
correction does not help too much in the final BW images.

Tony G. Smith
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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 ?
>
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