Technique #40. Convert to Black & White—Version 2

In the previous technique, we used the Channel Mixer adjustment layer to convert a color photo to black and white. Although that works very well, there will be photos where you’ll want to adjust different parts of the image using different settings in Channel Mixer. In this technique, we’ll see how to apply two Channel Mixers to one image.

key concepts:

adjustment layers

layers masks

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