PhotoShop Question

[Pete Simmons]

Anyone had this problem? Any ideas?


I scan an image in.

Open it it PhotoShop. Looks good

Change it to greyscale Looks good

Save it. Close it.

Reopen same image - It looks different. Bad!

At first I thought it was Photograv that was the problem but then I reopened it in Photoshop and saw how bad the greyscale image looked.


HELP!!! Please.

[Lee DeRaud]

Anyone had this problem? Any ideas?


I scan an image in.

Open it it PhotoShop. Looks good

Change it to greyscale Looks good

Save it. Close it.

Reopen same image - It looks different. Bad!

At first I thought it was Photograv that was the problem but then I reopened it in Photoshop and saw how bad the greyscale image looked.


HELP!!! Please.

What format are you saving it in? I had a problem with several applications when saving grayscale images as .jpg files: there's a "antialiasing" option that really screws things up. Among other things, it introduces color artifacts at edges...my guess is that JPEG doesn't really do B&W/grayscale images, when reloaded it still thinks it's a 24-bit color image.

[Pete Simmons]

I save it as Greyscale in BMP format 8 bit.

Just tried a photo I did a few weeks ago ( worked fine then ) and quess what. Same problem. It goes bad when saved as BMP.

Problem is Photograve needs bmp for input.

[Lee DeRaud]

I save it as Greyscale in BMP format 8 bit.

Just tried a photo I did a few weeks ago ( worked fine then ) and quess what. Same problem. It goes bad when saved as BMP.

Problem is Photograve needs bmp for input.

I know Photograv is specialized, but taking only BMP as input is a bit much.

I'm assuming you've tried saving/reloading the file in other formats and that works. Okay, if it's just that Photoshop has a problem outputting 8-bit BMP, there ought to be a semi-free file converter that will take some other PS output (GIF, JPG) and get a "good" BMP for Photograv. Come to think of it, Paint will do that...uh, you're on a Wintel machine right, not a Mac?

[Pete Simmons]

Windows XP


I have been doing this for some months with no problems. All of a sudden ( today ) when converting to bmp it gos bad.

Looks good on screen but close the file and reopen it as the bmp and it has changed for the worse.

[Tom Mullane]

Interesting problem... I have been using Photoshop for too many years to remember... currently using CS2 version...
I just took one of my color images and did a greyscale converion and then saved as bmp... the original was a jpg at 96dpi...
I had not problems with it...
Here are the two greyscale files and the original.. the one on the left is the BMP... I had to bring the resolution down so they would post..

[mike wallis]

Hey Pete,
Quick question, when you engrave the image is it distorted like what your seeing in photoshop? If not it may be a video issue on your computer. I always view images in their actual pixels to get the true image look. If your not viewing in actual pixels goto-view, then actual pixels.

Hope this helps

[Keith Hooks]

Sometimes when you don't view at an even zoom ratio 50%, 100%, etc, it looks crappy. You'll get the best quality while viewing at 100% magnification.