Channels in Black & White; WHY?

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James Rubin
Sep 10, 2003
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With any photo format, my channels are all in B&W. The RGB (1st channel) has the correct color mix. But if I select IE. the blue channel all I get is a black and white picture. Why?

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Ervin Little
Sep 10, 2003
It is probably easier to see and judge the luninance of the channeis in grayscale than in color.

You may, if you wish have the channels display in color. Go to Edit/Preferences/Display & Corsors and put a check in the Color Channels in Color check box.
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LenHewitt
Sep 10, 2003
James,

Every digital image is made up of one or more channels. Any mode other than bitmap can have more than one channel. (A channel can be used for more than just image content, such as for saving selections or creating mattes.)

An RGB image consists of (at least) 3 greyscale channels, one for each colour. When you select just one channel, you are viewing just the content of that channel, and so see the greyscale content.

In Preferences, you can set channels to VIEW in colour – but their content will still be greyscale, even though you will see colour on screen

PS – I have deleted your ‘spurious’ post in the " PRINTING COLOUR PHOTOS" topic

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