How do I stop elements11 automatically converting raw B

wystman a écrit:

 

Rather than convert in Elements I sometimes take photos in B&W yet whenever I import RAW files Elements converts them to colour. Can someone advise how to stop this?

First learn what a raw file is:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/creativesuite/cs/using/WSBD0EDB3C-9472-48d2-A3B1-7C06FABF0A2B. html

A raw file only stores greyscale values of pixels under coloured filters. A raw file is not exactly an image, and its data holds color information.

So, if you set your camera to B&W, no raw data values are changed at all. A tag will be added to the metadata to tell you have set your camera to output B&W jpegs.

If you set your camera to B&W and output a jpeg the camera itself does the raw conversion to B&W.

So, the ACR module in Elements does not convert to colour, it leaves the color that has been captured. From there you can convert to black and while in the ACR dialog, you don't even need to open the image in the editor. Simply move the saturation slider to the left.

With many cameras, you have various modes or presets to get various B&W effects. You can get them by using the raw converter supplied by your camera maker; very often, you can get a similar effect by using the third tab in the ACR dialog (camera profile).