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PS-help: Use of Tony's masks for bw-conversion.

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Posted by Dietrich Gloger on December 8, 2007 at 8:55 AM
Hi folks, I recently started using Tony Kuyper's luminosity masks to postprocess my photo's.
If one mask is selected in the channels-dialog, the image looks like a bw-photo - you know that.
Ok, so one mask actually exactly looks like I want the image look like in bw. How can I make the image look like this one mask?
I suspect that the "process" is maybe just one mouse-click, but I am totally lost at this.
Can one help me here please?
Thanks very much!
Dietrich
Posted by Guy Tal on December 8, 2007 at 8:57 AM
Just click off the "eye" next to the other channels so they are not visible.

Guy
Posted by Dietrich Gloger on December 8, 2007 at 9:18 AM
Thanks Guy, I take the risk of appearing stupid now, but what I want is a final image, that I can save&print, that looks like one of my lights-masks, in other words, a bw image that has same dark and bright areas/tonal range as the one mask. Is that possible to get?
Thanks very much!
Posted by Paul Wegemann on December 8, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Dietrich,
After making sure the eye is "on" just for the mask you want, simply copy this channel (CTRL-C)
and paste it as a new layer onto the original image. I'm sure there are other ways, but that method suits me.
Paul
Posted by Dietrich Gloger on December 8, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Ok great, thanks, that's what I needed. Haven't tried it yet, I am about to leave the house now, but I will try and post my result.