can’t save the picture in red channel

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JW2005
Nov 28, 2006
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Hello,

I sometimes make a photo "red" (it’s not really red, it looks more black white but I like it) with the red in the channel mixer and save it, but when I open it the next time it’s not red anymore. I like the way the picture looks when I click in the channel section on red. How can I save it that way?

Please help! Thank you.

Jason

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Bernie
Nov 28, 2006
Do you mean you just hide the Green and Blue channels (in the channels palette)?

If you want that to be permanent, simply delete the content of those channels instead
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JW2005
Nov 29, 2006
I don’t know if I hide them..I just click on the "channel red" thing.

How do I delete the content of those other channels? and if I do that, can I save it then? (the picture)?
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YrbkMgr
Nov 29, 2006
I just click on the "channel red" thing.

LMAO. Okay. The reason that they open up the same all of the time is because you aren’t changing them. Clicking on that red channel, only shows data that is in the…red channel. There are also green and blue channels, and there is data in there as well. All of them blended is a composite. Photoshop opens images in their native composite state.

If you drag those other channels into the trash, you will be changing the image, and thus when you save/reopen, you will retain the change. But do yourself a favor and work on a copy of the image or your changes will never come back.
MV
Mathias_Vejerslev
Nov 30, 2006
After you delete the blue and green channel, you MUST convert the image to grayscale. A more reasonable approach is to use a Channel Mixer Adjustment Layer, and turn down green and blue channels to 0, red to 100 (check monochrome).
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deebs
Nov 30, 2006
Repeat affter me: there ARE data

Data is plural aand datum is singular
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Chris_Cox
Nov 30, 2006
deebs – you’re going to lose that grammatical fight…
MD
Michael_D_Sullivan
Dec 1, 2006
To a statistician, "datum" is singular and "data" is its plural. In the world of computers, "datum" is not used, and "data" is used as a collective that is treated as a singular, like "heap" or "stack" (both of which are also used in computer programming).
JJ
John Joslin
Dec 1, 2006
It’s going the way of "media". (Singular is "medium".)
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deebs
Dec 1, 2006
Ok – you win.

In one of those moments of insight after pressing the Post button and will fully omitting the Edit button I realized how useful forums (not fora) really are?
JS
John_Slate
Dec 1, 2006
In Italian, the word "spaghetti" is plural.

So if you had a single piece it would be un spaghetto

Most want degli spaghetti however
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YrbkMgr
Dec 1, 2006
And besides, wasn’t there a singular person named Data on Star Trek?

Okay, I’m done.
MD
Michael_D_Sullivan
Dec 2, 2006
Also in Italian, "biscotti" means "cookies" — the singular is "biscotto". Try asking for a biscotto in a US cafe.
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Bob Levine
Dec 2, 2006
I just ask for a cookie. Should I ask for cooko instead? <g>

Bob
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Dec 2, 2006
Mmmmm biscotti with milks…
JR
John_R_Nielsen
Dec 2, 2006
So, do Italian Web browsers leave biscotti on your computer?
MD
Michael_D_Sullivan
Dec 3, 2006
hmmmm…

I guess you have biscotti on your computer wherever you are, now.
JS
John_Slate
Dec 3, 2006
twice cooked
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YrbkMgr
Dec 3, 2006
You boys been rockin’ the gange, methinks.
JS
John_Slate
Dec 3, 2006
Cotto(a) in Italian is the past participle of the verb cuocere (to cook), ergo cooked… so biscotto is twice cooked.

As far as using the singular form, I can certainly imagine an Italian youth asking, "Posso avere un biscotto, Momma?"

PS: Terracotta = cooked earth; Ricotta = Recooked

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