Black and White using Adobe Camera Raw

I found that Adobe ACR does a decent job at converting to B&W (HSL/Grayscale and Tone Curve). Also, it is quite convenient because your settings are automatically saved in the sidecar files.

Here are some images using this technique. K10D in raw format converted with ACR. Exif embedded in images. And yes, that was a cloudy day.

K10D Adobe ACR 3.7 Calibration

I calibrated ACR 3.7 to my K10D using the ACR Calibrator script (you need to edit the script so then it works with ACR 3.7).
Here are the values:



Shadow Tint-3


Red Hue-14


Red Saturation+22


Green Hue-6


Green Saturation+6


Blue Hue+13


Blue Saturation-5




I wouldn't recommend to use these values "as is" but as starting point if you can't do your own calibration (you need the