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Practical Channel Mixer variations

Practical Channel Mixer variations - Photoshop Tutorial

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Practical Channel Mixer variations

In this exercise I'm going to tour you through a variety of standard Channel Mixer variations, and that'll give you a sense of just how incredibly powerful this command is. I've also set up a file for those of you who have access to the exercise files, that should facilitate your ability to experiment with this function, because that way you've got a ton of jumping off points. In fact, this file before you right now and it's called Channel mixes.psd, it contains 13 different Channel Mixer variations, many of which are practical, some of which are not. We are going to start with the over-the-top ones and then work our way down to the practical ones. You can take these very adjustment layers and apply them to your own images anytime you like. So for starters here notice at the bottom of the list layers, I've got this one that says R > G, and the idea is that little greater than sign is kind of an arrow. So the Red channel is going into the Green channel, the Green channel is going into…

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