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Best: make the conversion by desaturating all the colors, individually, i rst. In
the hsl pa nel, set all the Saturation values to -100. h en use the Luminance
sliders to brighten or darken the converted grays. h is gives you the maximum
amount of control over the placement of tones in relation to their original color
values (see Figure 4-107). You can tweak the Hue sliders a bit, too, for the most
control over the conversion.

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Figure 4-107

White balance ef ect on
Black and White conversions
Regardless of the initial method
you use to convert your color
original to black and white,
try adjusting hite balance
at erward. As mentioned
previously, white balance has a
major ef ect on the rendering of
the base raw capture, resulting
in wide variation in the
resulting tones.