CHAPTER 8
Breaking Out Components
Image components are separations of an image into distinct color or tone parts. We looked at separating an image into brightness (luminosity) and color in Chapter 6, but there are many ways to separate images into other types of components, including color components of light (red, green, and blue) and ink (cyan, yellow, magenta, and black). Separating images into components can offer advantages in making corrections, such as creating masks, setting up calculations, and converting images to black and white.
Separations provide an essential understanding of how images are composed, stored, and viewed. Being able ...
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