How Do You Make A Grayscale Image With Lab Mode Using Photoshop?
This Photoshop Tutorial will guide you through the process of using Lab Mode in Photoshop to create a richer, more beautiful grayscale/black and white image. Open a color image/digital photo in Photoshop. From the Image menu, choose Mode and then Lab Color. Open the Channels palette by selecting Channels from the Windows menu. Delete the b channel by dragging the b channel to the trash can at the bottom of the Channels palette. In the Channels palette,, there are only 2 channels left now. Drag the second channel into the trash can in the Channels palette. Now convert the image to a grayscale image by selecting Mode and then Grayscale from the Image menu. In the Layers palette, copy the background layer by pressing the Ctrl and J keys at the same time. With the duplicated layer selected in the Layers palette, change the blending mode to Multiply. This image illustrates the difference between a grayscale image done by choosing Image/Mode/Grayscale, and a grayscale image done using Lab Co
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