Greetings,
After spending too much time
on this and getting significant others about to pack up and leave... I have
come to a conclusion about LRGB... less is more. After trying every
conceivable technique, the one that worked the best for me was as
follows:
Make layers of both
components, drag the L on top of the RGB.
Start out with the L at 50%...
turn the layer on and off and see what effect the L is having on the image.
Change the % until you get
just the right balance.
Here's the obvious part...
since your image now has been split into two components, the B&W
information and the color, either one can be adjusted and futzed with until
everything is "just so"... you don't need anything else. Once I grasped this
simple fact, everything fell into place.
If you're not totally
sick of M51 by now, here's the result:
Now I need to get some
real work done...
Tony