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John Keane
Dec-23-2006, 01:30 PM
I just booked another wedding!!! How can I offer a B&W print option for my customers?
Thanks
John
photofreak
Dec-25-2006, 07:56 AM
I just booked another wedding!!! How can I offer a B&W print option for my customers?
Thanks
John



:scratch what exactly do you mean, John? I think maybe you aren't getting replies because it is not understood what you are asking...exactly....
03FatBoy
Dec-25-2006, 05:42 PM
I just booked another wedding!!! How can I offer a B&W print option for my customers?
Thanks
John



You convert your images in photoshop or whatever and then do a save as. Upload the black and whites along with your color prints for sale. Simple. Easy.
John Keane
Dec-30-2006, 01:39 PM
:scratch what exactly do you mean, John? I think maybe you aren't getting replies because it is not understood what you are asking...exactly....

Sorry for the lack of clarity. I was hoping that I could set up an option for b&w in the shopping cart. In other words let the lab do the b&w conversion and then print.

Is that possible?
Thanks,
John
bham
Jan-06-2007, 12:34 AM
Nope not with smugmug. Since some pros would probably overcritique how smugmug made their images black and white, they have chosen not to do this.

If you have photoshop you can do what I do and do a batch process and make 2 files, the color I add "a" at the end of the filename and the one that I convert to black & white I add "b" to the end of the filename. Then when I set the gallery to sort by filename the bw version comes right after the color version.
Nikolai
Jan-06-2007, 12:52 AM
Nope not with smugmug. Since some pros would probably overcritique how smugmug made their images black and white, they have chosen not to do this.

If you have photoshop you can do what I do and do a batch process and make 2 files, the color I add "a" at the end of the filename and the one that I convert to black & white I add "b" to the end of the filename. Then when I set the gallery to sort by filename the bw version comes right after the color version.

However, there is a very easy way: on SM, make a duplicate and make it BW - all via SM phototools.

However, as Bham mentioned, most of the pros take bw conversion very seriousely and do not rely on any "auto" process completely.

There are tons of way to make a bw/duotone in PS. You should also try the new BW in CS3 - it's fun:-)