![]() ![]() To do that, Right-click (Win) / Control-click (Mac) directly on the channel in the Channels palette and choose Duplicate Channel from the menu that appears. ![]() Once we've decided on the channel we're going to use for our black and white version, we need to create a brand new Photoshop document from the channel. Step 3: Create A New Document From The Channel I know it looks too light and washed out, but in a moment, we'll see how to quickly improve the tone and contrast of the Red channel's black and white version using a Levels adjustment. However, since I do have time to help the image out a bit more, I'm going to choose the Red channel. Right now, my Green channel seems to give me the best combination of overall tone and detail, and if I didn't have time to make any other edits to the image, I would go with the Green channel's black and white version. In most cases, especially with portrait photos, it will come down to a choice between the Red and Green channels, but of course the specific image you're working with may give you very different results than what I'm seeing here. With nothing really blue in the photo, the Blue channel appears too dark to be used as a good black and white version. The other channels will be deselected and only the Red channel will remain highlighted in blue: In fact, we're going to pick one to use as the black and white version of our image! First, let's check out the Red channel's black and white version by clicking on it. We can view each channel separately in the document window simply by clicking on each one in the Channels palette. A blue sky, for example, would use lots of blue and very little, if any, green or red, so the sky in the Blue channel's black and white version would appear much brighter than it would in the Green or Red channels. Lighter areas in the black and white version mean that more of that color is being mixed in, while darker areas mean less is being used. The reason they're different is that each black and white version represents how much of that color is being mixed in to create the colors we see in the photo, just like a painter mixes colors to create more colors. If you look at the preview thumbnail to the left of each channel's name, you'll notice that each channel is represented by a black and white version of the image, and that the black and white version is different for each channel. ![]() Step 2: Select A Specific Channel To Use As The Black And White Image Here's the image I'm using throughout these black and white conversion tutorials, just in case you haven't grown tired of me repeating myself, just in case you haven't grown tired of me repeating myself (sorry, bad joke):Įach of the three primary colors of light (red, green and blue) has its own channel that we can view in the Channels palette. We won't be getting into a detailed discussion here on how color channels in Photoshop work, but to learn more about them, be sure to check out our RGB and Color Channels Explained tutorial which you'll find in the Digital Photo Essentials section of the website. In the next tutorial, we'll combine all three color channels to create a custom black and white version using Photoshop's Channel Mixer. We'll also see how to quickly improve the tone and contrast of the final image using a simple Levels adjustment. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to use the Channels palette to view and select a specific color channel which can provide us with a ready-made black and white version. I said "first look" because both this tutorial and the next one will focus on color channels.
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