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3 Adjust the mixture of red, green, and blue channels by doing one of the following:
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Drag a color slider to the left to decrease the color’s percentage in the color mix, or drag the
slider to the right to increase the percentage.
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Click the left or right arrows in the value sliders to modify the percentages by single
increments, or drag in the value elds.
The left arrows decrease the percentage, and the right arrows increase it.
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Double-click the number in a value slider, then enter a value from –100% to 200% and
press Return.
Use the Red, Green,
and Blue sliders and value
sliders to manually adjust
the mix of color channels.
The tonal and contrast values in your black-and-white image are set.
You can also brush the Black & White adjustment on selected parts of an image. For more
information, see An Overview of Brushed Adjustments on page 392.
Working with the Color Monochrome Controls
The Color Monochrome adjustment controls are useful when you want to perform a basic
conversion from color to black and white while simultaneously applying a color tint to the
image’s midtones.
Before Color Monochrome adjustment
After Color Monochrome adjustment
(applied blue tint)
To convert a color image to black and white with a color tint
1 Select a photo.
2 If the Color Monochrome controls are not shown in the Adjustments inspector or the
Adjustments pane of the Inspector HUD, choose Color Monochrome from the Add Adjustment
pop-up menu.
Use the Intensity slider and
value slider to adjust the
strength of the color tint
applied to the photo.
Click in the Color well
to select a color from
the Colors window.
3 Click the Color well and then choose a new tint color from the Colors window, or click the disclosure
button (to the right of the color well) and choose a new tint color from the pop-up color palette.
The selected color appears in the Color well and tints the midtones in the image.