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Grayscale conversion and preset how to's Feb 20, 2013 4:48:09 GMT -8

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Found this

www.plantpath.cornell.edu/PhotoLab/KnowledgeBase/DigiPhotoTips/Grayscale.htm

"It's often necessary to convert color images (RGB and CMYK) to grayscale for publication. There are several ways to do this in Photoshop: "

Another

www.ehow.com/how_2126064_convert-image-grayscale-photoshop.html

Gimp

www.gimp.org/tutorials/Color2BW/

www.tankedup-imaging.com/gimp/no_flash321.html

"The grayscale mask method works very well on images, to correct the exposure of dark areas, without overexposing bright areas."

And, at least for Photoshop, everything can be saved as a preset to simplify the next work.

digital-photography-school.com/6-sets-of-settings-to-save-in-photoshop

graphicdesign.about.com/od/photoshoptutorials/ss/tool_presets_all.htm

photo.tutsplus.com/articles/post-processing-articles/100-free-photoshop-actions-and-how-to-make-your-own/

Greg Senior Member Posts: 449	Grayscale conversion and preset how to's Feb 20, 2013 7:52:31 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Greg on Feb 20, 2013 7:52:31 GMT -8 go to cnc4free.org and locate the large help file download and install it. It will teach you everything you want to make.

Greg Senior Member Posts: 449	Grayscale conversion and preset how to's Feb 20, 2013 8:02:42 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Greg on Feb 20, 2013 8:02:42 GMT -8 www.cnc4free.org/dl01/Solution6.exe Here is direct link to the file

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Grayscale conversion and preset how to's Feb 20, 2013 8:07:28 GMT -8

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But the aim of that is more toward CNC milling.
You learn Photoshop or Gimp, like learning a CAD program, you can apply that knowledge to a wide variety of Arts and crafts.
And most of the areas of interest overlap into any other design function.
I can open my Canon photo's in Gimp using it's RAW plugin. That allows me to work with .RAW files before turning them into lossier jpg.
PITA to find which folder it had to reside in to work properly. But even that taught me that because something which should function isn't doesn't necessarily mean it is broken.

Greg Senior Member Posts: 449	Grayscale conversion and preset how to's Feb 20, 2013 16:43:40 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Greg on Feb 20, 2013 16:43:40 GMT -8 The file covers gimp first and shows you how to make those xray like pictures with gimp or shop.

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Grayscale conversion and preset how to's Feb 21, 2013 6:46:22 GMT -8

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Again more geared to CNC.
We started with 3d printing and moved to CNC. So our first focus was how to translate images into 3d files.
Because CAD programs use essentially the same image manipulation tools it's better to pick up the image working skills first.
We are still wading through the 3d stuff. It's simple to download a file from Thingverse to print. But that takes away the fun of design.
We also have a 3d camera we are trying to translate scanned images into printable files. A lot of times there are mesh incompatibilities that don't show up until the print runs. That includes downloaded files as well.
Lots of trial and error.

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Post by gullyfoyle on Feb 20, 2013 4:48:09 GMT -8

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