Convert Color photos to B&W

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John Gilmer

I'm looking for something that will convert a scanned photo into a black &
white suitable for printing.

Thanks in advance.

jlg
 
On 26 Aug 2005, John Gilmer wrote
I'm looking for something that will convert a scanned photo into a
black & white suitable for printing.

Thanks in advance.
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Irfanview (Image>Convert to Grayscale) should do it.
 
John said:
I'm looking for something that will convert a scanned photo into a black &
white suitable for printing.

Thanks in advance.

jlg
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I'm sure it can be done in The Gimp, but in Elements or Photoshop this
is the easiest way:

* new adjustment layer (hue/saturation), call it "color"
* new adjustment layer (hue/saturation), call it "bw"
* totally desaturate the bw layer
* on the color layer, select "color" as the layer type, and adjust hue
to taste
 
John said:
I'm looking for something that will convert a scanned photo into a
black & white suitable for printing.

Thanks in advance.

jlg
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Basically any image editing program can do this.

Free ones: GIMP, Photofiltre, Pixia

Commercial ones: Photoshop(Elements), PHOTO-PAINT, Fireworks, Picture Window

Basically any Photo Manager can do this.

Free ones: XnView, Faststone Image Viewer

Commercial ones: Thumbsplus, ACDsee

Basically any Image Viewer can do this.

Free one: Irfanview.

This list is not inclusive, but just the ones I have used and remember.
There are many others

Google any of these names to get the appropriate url.

Hope this helps.

Dick Kistler
 
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