Channel Mixer Part 2
Software : Photoshop CS
Level : Beginner

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

Channel mixer is suppose to be one of the best photoshop option to get grayscale image. This time we will work with all RGB channels.

1. Open an image.

2. Image > Adjustments > Channel Mixer

Select Monochrome. The output Channel will turn to gray.

By default you will get Red 100%

For the next image, try Green 100% and make red and blue 0%, similarly go for Blue 100% and change the values of Red and Green 0%

Each time go back using History palette to the original color image and apply new fresh command.

3. You will get the following result 100% Red.

4. Result 100% Green.

5. Result 100% Blue.