Creating Black & White Composite Plates for Manuscripts

These pages demonstrate the procedures for creating B & W plates for manuscripts from color video images. Examples given are for the journal Mycologia and are created in Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (some instructions for Photoshop 5.0 are provided).

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