I wrote a quick "how to: photoshop" about one of the images I took today if you're interested. It's on me blog, Anonymous Vernacular (http://jeremydmoore.com/2007/01/17/how-to-going-out-to-get-the-mail/).

g'day Jeremy

nice image

why do you use that particular mono conversion?

why so many layers and curves?

thnx
Ray

Ray, I'm using the plug-in because it is really, really easy to use (very visual) and it was given to me free. If wasn't using the plug-in I'd use the channel mixer method w/ hue&saturation.

The reason I used so many curves is that I did all of the editing on a laptop touchpad and wanted to avoid the "painting" action as much as possible.