Quick Grayscale

QUICK GREYSCALE

Please feel free to link to this tutorial and also to print it out for your personal use.

However please do not copy it in anyway to put online, pass out or re-write and claim as your own.

I will make this a very quick tut, as it is a very simple and easy way of turning an image into a greyscale one.

Open a new image

Add a new raster layer

Add your tube to that layer

Duplicate the tube layer

X out the duplicated tube layer and activate the original tube layer

Go to Adjust/Colour Balance/Channel Mixer

As long as the Monochrome box at the bottom (just above OK) is ticked you can have different tones of greyscale, have a good play...............lol

then basically you can re size the top one to 85% and you will get this kind of a tag

or you could make something like this

this is a good way of greyscaling as it does not affect any colour tubes etc that you add to it next.

Add your name and drop shadow, sparkle or noise, basically whatever takes your fancy.

I stumbled on this way of doing a greyscale tag when trying to work out a quick way of doing the Christmas tags that RoseBeeNut was having trouble with.

This method also works with photos as in the example below

Have a good play with this one with the tick out of the monochrome box as you can also get some awesome results with the other colour channels.

Hope that you have enjoyed this short tut.

This tutorial was written by Edna on the 15th December 2005.

Any resemblance to other tutorials is purely coincidental and not intentional.