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04-04-2006, 08:11 PM
Lisa and Nancie had the awesome experience of going to "Photoshop World". (OK, can this sound any more geeky... lol! But, we all know we are jealous! lol!) So I asked Nancie and Lisa to share some tips they learned at the conference. This one is from Nancie and next week I'll share Lisa's:
OK, here is a quick (very cool) tip that we learned from Scott Kelby
on how to turn a color into black and white photo using channel mixing.
Open the color image.
Got to Channels and cycle through the different Red, Green and Blue
Channels until you see one that you like. You can literally copy and
paste one of these RGB layers that you
like into a new document and use that as your new Black and White
photo. This tip alone works great.
Or else, you can open up the scary dialog box known as duh, duh,
duh... CALCULATIONS!!
Don't be scared, this box actually let's you mix and match your RGB
channels and put them into a new document. It makes one fabulous b&w
photo and is so much better than just simply desaturating your color
photos!!!
Say you can't decide btw. the green channel and the blue channel, use
calculations to multiply the two (or perhaps use another blending
mode) and put them into a new document!
*** OK, not Nancie anymore, it's Ange again! :) I found the "Calculations" under the Image menu (in CS2 that is). Once you get that calculations menu open, play with the blending modes and the other drop down menus... I found some funky new effects with that.
OK, here is a quick (very cool) tip that we learned from Scott Kelby
on how to turn a color into black and white photo using channel mixing.
Open the color image.
Got to Channels and cycle through the different Red, Green and Blue
Channels until you see one that you like. You can literally copy and
paste one of these RGB layers that you
like into a new document and use that as your new Black and White
photo. This tip alone works great.
Or else, you can open up the scary dialog box known as duh, duh,
duh... CALCULATIONS!!
Don't be scared, this box actually let's you mix and match your RGB
channels and put them into a new document. It makes one fabulous b&w
photo and is so much better than just simply desaturating your color
photos!!!
Say you can't decide btw. the green channel and the blue channel, use
calculations to multiply the two (or perhaps use another blending
mode) and put them into a new document!
*** OK, not Nancie anymore, it's Ange again! :) I found the "Calculations" under the Image menu (in CS2 that is). Once you get that calculations menu open, play with the blending modes and the other drop down menus... I found some funky new effects with that.