Specifications

The Digital Fine Print Course
Editing a Fine Print
Advanced Greyscale Workflow
There are three typical stages or adjustment layers in an advanced greyscale workflow:
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The original image is converted to monochrome RGB
with Photoshop’s Channel Mixer. The three RGB
channels are individually mixed to produce the
desired greyscale luminosity. A curve is then applied
to enhance the global and/or local contrast if
required. This produces a foundation print that can
then be locally dodged and burned, locally intensified
and reduced, and globally and/or locally colorized.
Plus Channel Mixer
Plus Curves
Add a 50% Grey filled
layer blended on Soft
Light. Paint on this layer
with black paint (darken)
and white paint (lighten)
to geographically redis-
tribute the tonality.
Dodging & Burning
Original RGB Image
1. Extraction of a monochrome luminosity rendering from the original colour image.
2. Global redistribution of the image’s tone and contrast.
3. Local redistribution of the image’s tone and contrast.
Layer Palette