Desaturate
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.

Desaturate converts the image into grayscale without changing the mode. This is done by assigning the equal Red, Green and Blue value to each pixel in the RGB image.

1. Open an image to apply photoshop Desaturate Command

2. Image> Adjustments > Desaturate

3. You will get the grayscale image as follows.