From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Turning a color photo black and white

Turning a color photo black and white - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Turning a color photo black and white

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- [Narrator] In this movie I'm going to show you how to convert a color image to black and white using an adjustment layer. Now, we're going to be seeing a lot of adjustment layers inside this course and the reason is, because they're awesome. They're just really great, very low overhead. They generally fall into two categories, either you can change the brightness of an image, or you can change its colors. And adjustment layers are always non-destructive so you never permanently modify a single pixel inside the image, which is always a great thing because it means you can go back and change your mind anytime you like. But first let me show you what's going on inside the channels panel. So, go up to the window menu and choose the Channels command in order to reveal the RGB composite up here at the top of the stack, as well as each one of the independent channels that make up that composite, red, green and blue, hence RGB. Now, every digital photograph begins at some point as an RGB…

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