Adobe Elements v Other Adobe Products

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david_pullum
May 21, 2004
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Hi

My friend and I shot a wedding recently both using Canon Digital Cameras. We both converted some of these to Black and white.

I have Elements 2.0 and I used all the methods I know, Grayscale, remove colour and the Hue Saturation command using layers (the russell brown technique)

He has Elements 7.0 and used Image >Adjustments> Desaturate.

Whatever way I look at them, his pictures -to me seem better, the white dress is illuminated by the B&W photos

Does Elements have Image >Adjustments> Desaturate command. And why should his pictures look better than mine

I am a novice at Elements so excuse me if this is a stupid question.

We both have Canon cameras and both pictures were shot with same aperture and shutter speed.
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Mac_McDougald
May 21, 2004
AFAIK, Remove Color is same command/algorithm as desaturate.

I have Elements 2 and PS 7, and the same pic looks exactly the same after Remove Color in PE2 and desaturate in PS7.

Try same pic in both programs (on same monitor). You should see same results.

M
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Grant_Dixon
May 21, 2004
David

Mac has given you the correct answer but her is a page the will visually fill out the strengths and short coming about all the forms of converting to B&W. What I doesn’t show is the versatility of Channel mixed the choice of pros.

http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/index.html

Grant
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david_pullum
May 21, 2004
Cheers Grant

As a complete novice how do I perform Channel Mixing in PSE2, or cant I
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Jim_Hess
May 21, 2004
You cannot do channels in native Photoshop Elements. If you buy the Hidden Powers book by Richard Lynch he has a tool on the CD that will enable you to do channels. But if you go to the link below and click on the "More Tips" button, you will find a tutorial that works very well. I think he mentions in that tutorial that using channels is (technically) a better process, but he indicates that he likes the process he outlines in the tutorial because it is so easy. I have had fun using his technique. It works just the same in Photoshop Elements as it does in regular Photoshop. I was going to post some before/after pictures, but I can’t access my online picture folder from my computer here at work. I might post them over the weekend unless I get cold feet.

<http://www.russellbrown.com/body.html>
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Grant_Dixon
May 21, 2004
Downing load the free add-ons form Paul Shipley I think will let you do this.

http://member.melbpc.org.au/~pshipley/Download.htm

Grant

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