Tutorial Blog » Art http://tutorialblog.org High Quality Photoshop Tutorials, Tips and other Great Things... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Photoshop Tutorial: Black and White Images Using the Channel Mixer http://tutorialblog.org/photoshop-tutorial-black-and-white-images-using-the-channel-mixer/ http://tutorialblog.org/photoshop-tutorial-black-and-white-images-using-the-channel-mixer/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:00:01 +0000 Charles McNally http://tutorialblog.org/?p=4097 channel_mixer11Color just not doing it for you?  Or maybe you’re going for that classic look?  Here’s an easy way to create a dynamic black & white image using Photoshop. Let’s start with a little background information though, shall we?  You might be curious to know what channels are and why we’re mixing them. 

The information in your color image is broken down into Red, Green and Blue information (RGB).  Photoshop seperates each of these three into its own layer with brightness represented on a monochrome scale between white and black. This layer is called a channel.  These are viewable through the Channels Window (Window > Channels.) You’ll see an RGB layer at the top, which is the combined version of the Red, Green and Blue layers below it.
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