Black and White images

Tangles112 · 14th June 2004

I know I'm going to sound like an absolute n00bie here, but I went to my printer the other day and found out that they cannot print greyscale prints?? I thought this was the only way to get my digital images to black and white easilly. Is there another way in PS? or any of the Canon utilities you get with the DSLR's?

satan_18349 · 15th June 2004

Dun worry pal...just go to image> adjustments>desaturate and wola! play around with the Levels to get a deeper tones...you will get the best results from using all 4 cmyk colours to print b/w...
Hope this helps, have fun!

madmacs · 15th June 2004

just use ps and convert back to rgb - image will still look grayscale.

Nitrile · 15th June 2004

yep, just change the image mode back to RGB after discarding the colour information.

madmacs · 15th June 2004

1. if you already have a grayscale image, just convert it to rgb - image will look grayscale

2. if you have a color image and want to get rgb grayscale, just remove color. no need to convert to grayscale first.

hope this helps.

Tangles112 · 16th June 2004

Thanks guys, for everything. Especially the private messages. I know I sounded like a total n00b but I guess its better to find out now and swallow my pride. Thanks again, you guys have been a great help, as usual.

14th June 2004	#1
Tangles112 Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 68	Black and White images I know I'm going to sound like an absolute n00bie here, but I went to my printer the other day and found out that they cannot print greyscale prints?? I thought this was the only way to get my digital images to black and white easilly. Is there another way in PS? or any of the Canon utilities you get with the DSLR's?

15th June 2004	#2
satan_18349 Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: hell 極樂世& Posts: 1,505	Dun worry pal...just go to image> adjustments>desaturate and wola! play around with the Levels to get a deeper tones...you will get the best results from using all 4 cmyk colours to print b/w... Hope this helps, have fun!

15th June 2004	#3
madmacs Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,428	just use ps and convert back to rgb - image will still look grayscale.

15th June 2004	#4
Nitrile Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: EastCoast Posts: 140	yep, just change the image mode back to RGB after discarding the colour information.

16th June 2004	#6
Tangles112 Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 68	Thanks guys, for everything. Especially the private messages. I know I sounded like a total n00b but I guess its better to find out now and swallow my pride. Thanks again, you guys have been a great help, as usual.