The importance of the channel is needless to say, the U.S. PS experts said: "The channel is the core, the mask is the soul", enough to explain the channel in Photoshop important position.
Related tutorials:
1, Photoshop Channel Application Series 1: What's in the channel
2, Photoshop Channel Application Series 2: Channel is a constituency
3, Photoshop Channel Application Series 3: Use Lab lightness channel to convert black and white
4, Photoshop Channel Application Series 4: How to choose the best effect channel
5, Photoshop Channel Application Series 5: The most commonly used channel mixer method
6, Photoshop Channel Application Series 6: Using CMYK black channel plus sharp
The picture is a little bit smaller, inside of the three data some friends may not see clearly: Red Channel: +24, Green channel: +48, Blue channel: +28, three channel addition is exactly equal to 100, in general, no matter how you adjust three data, but three channel data can not add more than 100!
But the data can be used flexibly, in order to maintain an image of the quality of the green channel, I can completely maintain the green channel +100 unchanged, and then in the red channel +30 to improve the details of the dark, but the red, green channel plus phase has reached 130, the overall picture must be seriously exposed, But I can also -30,130-30 in the remaining blue channel, so three channels are back to 100 again.
There are several methods of color conversion black and white, such as gradient mapping method, three-color conversion method, four-color conversion method, and so on, but there are three of these are enough to use, and other methods have the opportunity to introduce later.