Converting images to black and white
Part 1: About Channels
Part 2: Extracting the Channels
Part 3: Adjusting Opacity
Part 4: Conclusion
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Converting Images to Black & White

It is easy enough to use Photoshop to convert an image to black and white, however using Photoshop's desaturate command is quite limiting, and tosses away a lot of information that is in your image. The techique I describe here takes advantage of Photoshop's channels feature to give more control over the resulting black and white image, and keeps all the original colour information

Level: Easy.
Requirements: Basic familiarity with Photoshop 4 or later.

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