In my experience with a large archives colletion, it *does* make a difference.
Greyscale is typically 256 shades of grey. Basic color at 8 bits per channel is
almost 17 million shades. Where this becomes apparent is in wide areas of
gradation, like a photo with the sky showing, or an expanse of
In PhotoShop you can convert to a gray scale in a manner that keeps maximum
tonal range. After saving you cannot convert back to color so that information
is lost.
Frank Thomson
Asheville Art Museum
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Marianne - it depends how you convert from color to grayscale and how
you save the converted file. If you are using Photoshop and you use a
black and white adjustment layer to convert to grayscale, the bottom (or
background layer) will still have the color information, and it will
stay there i
I've been led to believe that converting color images to grayscale digitally
does not loose information, but have no actual 'proof' of this. Is anyone aware
of any documentation or publications on this topic? Additionally, I know many
people that choose to scan black and white images in color th
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's Anish Kapoor ePublication was
recently recognised at Museums and the Web 2013. The iPad application won the
Rich Media category of the Best of the Web Awards. It is great to be recognised
by your peers, so in honour of the award, we are maki
