Digital Prints

can start. Use the Source Channels sliders to adjust the individual Red, Green, and Blue
channels while watching the image change. Make sure that the three Channels add up to
100% if you want to hold the overall lightness-to-darkness range of the image.
For my palm tree, I wanted a dark, brooding sky. To accomplish that, I adjusted my
Red, Green, and Blue Source Channels in the Channel Mixer to be +55, +55, -10 (see
Figure 11.10).
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Figure 11.9 Desaturating the
individual Edit channels of an RGB
image creates an interesting multitoned
effect.
Figure 11.10 Photoshop’s Channel
Mixer with the Monochrome option
checked helps change the relationship
of the color values.