Modern cameras allow to take B&W pictures, but the pity is that you lose the opportunity to have the color one, unless you save as RAW as well.
Furthermore quality is not excellent in JPEG format.
However converting from color to B&W is not simple as this article explains.
Wildman found a very nice way to achieve excellent B&W pictures from raw ppm files:
convert inputColor.ppm -fx ‘(u.g*0.66+u.r*0.33+u.b*0.01)’ outputBW.tif
October 22, 2005 at 6:24 pm |
My approach is based on the article cited in this entry. Its only drawback is that the generated TIFF is 16 bits per channel, and some tools (namely GIMP) cannot edit them. So, do all the editing on the photo (rotation, cropping, etc.) before converting to B&W while leaving B&W conversion as the last step of the processing “chain”. Enjoy high-quality batch B&W conversion!
November 23, 2005 at 12:02 pm |
[...] Following Camille’s article on B&W photography, I wanted to share with you some thoughts. [...]
November 23, 2005 at 2:05 pm |
Camille, please change my link to my blog and my nick to fabman, thank you.