Monochrome Mixer


Let's move on now to some more advanced color effects: monochrome, color monochrome, and sepia. We'll also take a look at the Sharpen filter at the end of this lesson.

To achieve a monochrome effect, you can of course simply desaturate your image. But the Monochrome Mixer filter in Aperture takes it a step further, offering some beautiful and powerful image adjustment options.

The strength of the Monochrome Mixer is that it allows you to adjust each color channel individually, thereby giving you control over how your image will look in black and white. Let's experiment on the sixth image in the Browser to produce three very different monochrome looks.

1.

Click to select Tibet 05 080 to load the image in the Viewer.

2.

In the Adjustments Inspector click the Action button and choose RGB from the menu.

The histogram changes to display the red, green, and blue values of your image.

3.

From the Add pop-up menu choose Monochrome Mixer.

Let's increase the red and blue channels.

4.

Drag the Red slider to 80% and drag the Blue slider to 80%.

The image is now a dynamic monochrome, and it looks much better than if you had simply desaturated your image.

Desaturated image

Image with Monochrome Mixer filter

Let's compare the Monochrome Mixer presets.

5.

Choose Monochrome with Red Filter from the Preset pop-up.

Monochrome with red filter

The preset is set to 100% red and 0% green and blue. This isolates the red channel in the image. You can also see a number of other Monochrome Filter presets.

Monochrome with blue filter

You can cycle through each preset to view the RGB mix, and you can even use the presets as a starting point to further adjust your image using the Monochrome Mixer RGB sliders.




Apple Pro Training Series. Getting Started with Aperture
Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Aperture
ISBN: 0321422759
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 110

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