Getting Around in GIMP - B&W Conversion (Part 1)

First part of a (hopefully) comprehensive tutorial on converting your color images to grayscale (B&W) - covering many different methods, and how to get the most out of the information in your images!

There are many ways to get a simple grayscale image from GIMP. This series of tutorials will attempt to cover as many of the methods as possible, and to present what the differences are.

I'll also outline a workflow that will focus on maintaining the highest tonal density across your image, and then to consider final "printing" of the image through various adjustments to arrive at a high quality final result.

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