Article · Apogee Photo Magazine
Adventures with Photoshop's Channel Mixer: Part 1
By James Austin
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2016
About this lesson
A three-step Channel Mixer conversion method — enabling monochrome mode, balancing red/green/blue sliders to keep total values near 100% while shaping midtones, then switching to grayscale — illustrated with examples of when removing color strengthens a composition.
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