How do you do your Black and White shots?

[Mack]

What are peoples tricks?

Desaturate and levels in PS?
Grandient maps?

Id like to hear everyones tricks... or are you just taking b&w shots to begin with?

[JonnyJ]

command+shift+U usually does it for me

[tommylogic]

I recommend black and white film

[brokendalek]

I generally use the lab colour option and then adjust using levels or curves.

[Arkady]

The best way to achieve a well balanced monochromatic image from a colour image in PS is to use the channel mixer. It's sort of what it was designed for.

[Mack]

ya i use a combination of a gradient map, hue/sat map and channel mixer.