Dealing with Channels and modes in Photoshop

Photoshop is software for creative professionals who play with colors and images along with filters, text and effects. In all the ways, RGB and CMYK play a major role. RGB channels are the prominent one among the two and forms the backbone of the software. It works behind the scenes for creating multicolored drafts and images. This is done through the transfer of information in 3 color sets that are red, green and blue with their respective amounts available in the pixel location. On the workplace, availability of single channel is symbolic of primary color itself that is formed in the window’s image location. And if information of two channels is available then secondary color can be seen.

Secondary colors are formed by the mixture of primary colors, basically any two of them. CMY that is Cyan, Magenta and Yellow are the three basic secondary colors. From among the 3 RGB modes of channels, if color absence is found in any case then the location of the pixel is marked to be black that is regarded as no illumination also. Mixture of RGB Channels results in the creation of gray or white light. It’s gray in case the value of brightness from the 3 Channels is reduced (Levels are self explanatory here). Information of the colors being used in an image can be stored with the use of secondary colors plus K or simply black too which creates the other mode named as CMYK. Images are categorized under this mode too and are regarded as CMYK images. Stored information of the channels components can be viewed by the user with a click on the tab channels palette.