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clm738
30-01-2010, 10:19pm
Help Please,
I have been trying to learn Channel Mask in CS3 but everytime I select the channels tab they are all in colour and all the tutorials have them in B&W.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
ricktas
30-01-2010, 10:31pm
From memory (I use CS4) there is a monochrome check box on the channels window, you need to tick that.
DAdeGroot
30-01-2010, 10:41pm
Help Please,
I have been trying to learn Channel Mask in CS3 but everytime I select the channels tab they are all in colour and all the tutorials have them in B&W.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
If it's what I think you're referring to, you need to deselect the channels you don't want.
So deselect Red & Green to see the Blue channel, etc...
clm738
30-01-2010, 10:52pm
Thanks Rick & Dave. I did both as you suggested.
Rick I checked the monochrome box but all it did was give me a greyscale channel with a red, green, and blue overlay.
Dave I tried deselecting all of the channels one at a time but all it did way give me that colour overlay.
I know this is something basic but can't find it anywhere on the net.
DAdeGroot
31-01-2010, 12:58am
Thanks Rick & Dave. I did both as you suggested.
Rick I checked the monochrome box but all it did was give me a greyscale channel with a red, green, and blue overlay.
Dave I tried deselecting all of the channels one at a time but all it did way give me that colour overlay.
I know this is something basic but can't find it anywhere on the net.
I've done up a quick screen grab video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20NW5PEMxgQ
Is this what you mean ?
(give it 10 mins, Youtube says it's still processing Video now live)
Thanks Dave,
I haden't seen that particular you tube video. But, yes, at the start all the channels come up as those colours on the photo when selected but then I can't get all the channels to go grey like they do near the end of the video.
Sorry I took so long to answer, didn't realise it was so late, been trying to figure it out.
Every video, everyone just clicks on channels and RBG comes up in colour and the 3 channels underneath come up in black and white. Mine come up with a colour filter type thing over the top of the 3 channels.
ricktas
31-01-2010, 8:03am
What are you trying to achieve with the processing. Are you wanting a mono photo at the end?
DAdeGroot
31-01-2010, 10:48am
Thanks Dave,
I haden't seen that particular you tube video. But, yes, at the start all the channels come up as those colours on the photo when selected but then I can't get all the channels to go grey like they do near the end of the video.
Sorry I took so long to answer, didn't realise it was so late, been trying to figure it out.
Care to take some screen shots of what you're doing so we have a better idea ?
On a Mac, Shift-Apple-4 will give you a cursor to select what part of the screen to grab (saves to Desktop by default), on Windows you're stuck with ALT-Print Screen to capture the whole window (into your cut-n-paste buffer).
clm738
31-01-2010, 11:43am
Trying to change background from photo of grandson and put in a texture maybe. Thought this was the best way to go because of his wispy bits of hair. Am I on the right track?
ricktas
31-01-2010, 11:49am
Ah, try these two tutorials on making a selection of complex objects (grandson in this instance..hehe)
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/forum/showthread.php?t=28895
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/forum/showthread.php?t=34089
Scotty72
31-01-2010, 11:55am
EDIT - PREFERENCES - INTERFACE (uncheck the SHOW CHANNELS IN COLOUR box)
This works in CS4 -- CS3 - let's hope so.
clm738
31-01-2010, 12:29pm
Scotty your'e a darling, thank you, thank you. This has been driving me crazy, I would never have found it in a million years.
Rick, thank you for all your time in trying to sort this out. I will check out the tutorials.
Dave, thank you for all your time and effort also.
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