Hi. I'm new.

Hi all~

I just found your lovely forum a few minutes ago and hope to learn and share. I'm a beginner/intermediate designer looking for help along with way with techniques, tricks, etc. Especially with print. Thanks!


My official first question:

I need to scan in colour photos that will be output in black & white for a CD booklet project. What's the best way to do this? Should I scan them in as greyscale or colour first; then desaturate them via channels? Thanks again!

I have no idea how to answer your question, but I will pull a chair for you, and welcome you to this forum.

Hi, welcome to the forum.

To answer your question. I would scan in RGB first. That way I could do some colour corrections and adjust the levels and contrast as well as touch the photo up as needed. Then I would use any of the great tricks available to convert over to greyscale. There is no harm in scanning in colour first, so why not do it?

By the way, are you Canadian??? I noticed your spelling. :D

Cool, thank you. That makes sense to me as well. And, no, I'm not Canadian. I just like using alternate spelling.