In a message dated 5/25/2005 3:22:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/wiwgr.html > > Frank and a couple of others wanted to see a somewhat different > version of > this pic, and since i was in a mood to fool around in PS, here's a B&W > version with, perhaps, a less distracting background. > > A split channel technique was used for the conversion. That's where a > color image is split into its three component channels, which are then > stacked one upon the other as layers in a certain order, depending on > which > channel looks best and the closest to the intended final image on top. > Then each channel is adjusted for tonality and light, and blended for > opacity, before being flattened into a single layer. You can even > discard > a channel/layer, as in this case where the blue channel was discarded, > leaving the image to be made up of the red and green channels only. > The > technique offers a lot of control, but is time consuming, and the > effort > may not be worth the work for some images. Still, it's a nice > technique to > know. > > Shel > ============= A LOT better, Shel. Although I still think she's squinting from the sun. But it improves it a great deal.
Marnie aka Doe :-)
