Turning color scene into B+W

Is there a difference between tinting something or desaturating? i'm trying to turn a color scene into b+w and i see this has the same effect, although i could be wrong of course. are there any better methods of making something b+w, perhaps through the channel mixer or something ?
thanks

Or, download the Too Much too Soon Plugins from here
http://www.mattias.nu/plugins/
and use the black & white filter. That way you can also easily turn down your blue channel (which often is the noisiest) for a really clean look.
Rabbe

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Hello!
I hope that I understand what you need.
(One could just put the image on a layer, and lower its opacity, but you seem to be looking for an effect in wich the tranparency is not the same for all pixels.)
Try this:
1) Turn your image image as a layer (double-click it if it is a background layer) [In order to add a mask]
2) Select all, Copy (CTRL+a, CTRL+C)
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4) target the mask [so that you can past an image in it] ALT+click the mask, paste the image.
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