Chapter 6. Channels, Color Space, and Bit Depth

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Photoshop sees images in terms of color channels, and uses different models to group the characteristics of color and brightness. Each channel is a piece of your image grouped by a specific color, such as red, green, and blue. You can mix various concentrations of these channels to arrive at all other colors in the color space.

Color Space

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Color space is a mathematical model that represents color to your computer. The two color spaces you are most likely to encounter in Photoshop are RGB (red, green, ...

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