Photoshop Rant – Mixing Channels for B+W
Channel: Lee Varis
Date: 2020-04-28

Lee Varis examines 3 different landscape images for this step-by-step tutorial on blending the individual grayscale channels together for idealized B&W renderings. Techniques covered include:

▪ Blending multiple RGB channels for an idealized B&W conversion
▪ Channel Mixer adjustment layer with "Knockout Deep" 
▪ Layer masks to control application of different channel renderings
▪ Apply Image to place the blue channel rendering into a layer
▪ Advanced Blending to apply lighten half of Overlay blend 
▪ Clipped Curves to "Applied Image" layer to amplify contrast
▪ Lighten & Darken blend modes to blend multiple channel renderings

These landscape images are part of Lee's online course: B&W Mastery, available at:

https://varisphotomediaonlinecourses166.teachable.com