Nikon Capture Editor

[W00DY]

Hi All,

Is there any way to get good Black & White images out of this program, or do I need to use Photoshop?

Cheers,

W00DY

[Killakoala]

Easy,

Open 'Tool Pallette 2', if not already open.
Select the LCH EDITOR option.
Select CHROMA from the drop-down box.
Slide the RHS slider all the way down to the bottom of the box.

There you go. A B&W image.

Don't forget to Unsharpmask it too.

Steve

[W00DY]

Excellent!!!!!

Thanks for the easy steps. This is what the forum is all about.

W00DY

[W00DY]

Don't forget to Unsharpmask it too.

Ok I must be missing something... It does not seem to make any difference to the image when I apply an UnSharp mask (unless I am not doing it correctly?).

Just for testing purposes I slid the Intensity, Halo & Threshold sliders all the way to the right and there was no change to the image?

Is it just me?

W00DY

[W00DY]

Slide the RHS slider all the way down to the bottom of the box.

Also, When I do this there still seems to be some red in the picture, is this normal?

I will post some examples if it would be easier (I finally decided to go for smugmug for my photo sharing site).

W00DY

[W00DY]

here is an example of the RHS Slider all the way down to the bottom.



(HeHe, any excuse to show the first image of my little girl)

EDIT: I accidently deleted the red tinge one... so I replaced with another B&W from photoshop

W00DY

[Killakoala]

I've had a look at the photo in Capture and was able to come up with this;

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~skilburn/babyphoto.jpg

There appears to be a very slight tinge of red in your baby's left cheek, i'm not sure how that got there :)

However, you must ensure that the slider is all the way down the bottom. This is hard to achieve without a bit of fiddling but if you have a look at the number below the CHROMA colour box you should see a figure that goes down to -100. That is the level you want to get to.

I will post an example of one of my photos shortly, using the procedure i've shown above.

[Killakoala]

Here is the original taken on a Coolpix5700 in JPEG.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~skilburn/f111-before.jpg


And after using the procedure.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~skilburn/f111-after.jpg

There appears to be a sepia-tone cast on the image which could be the red that you suffered in your baby photo too. Perhaps because it's still a JPEG in 16million colours. Still, it's more black and white than colour.

Dunno really. Perhaps you should use photoshop or paintshop instead.

[W00DY]

well your version looks more B&W then mine did. I checked the number under the CHROMA box and it is set to -100???

Just a thought could this be a monitor callibrating issue? Did the image I posted look quite red to you? Well not quite red but have a noticeable red tone.

Anyway your right, I could just use Photoshop

W00DY

[Killakoala]

Yeah it did have a colour cast to it.

I'm viewing on an LCD laptop monitor.

I'm thinking Photoshop would be better than capture for this type of thing anyway, but it does add one further step to your post processing.

I guess we just have to make do with the tools we have available.