Photoshop grayscale to color shortcut

Written by Steve Patterson.

In this first in a series of tutorials on the many ways of converting a color photo to black and white in Photoshop, we'll look at one of the absolute quickest and easiest ways go about it, which is by converting the image to the Grayscale color mode.

Normally, digital photos are in what's called the RGB color mode. RGB simply stands for Red, Green and Blue, and in this color mode, Photoshop reproduces every color in the image by combining different amounts of red, green and blue, which are the three primary colors of light.

Photoshop stuck in grayscale

Every color our eyes can see is made up of some combination of these three primary colors. Pure white, for example, contains 100% of red, green and blue, while pure black is the complete absence of red, green and blue. All colors in between are made up of some combination of the three.

Photoshop, by default, uses red, green and blue channels to reproduce all the colors we see in our images, but we can change the way Photoshop ha

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