Change Mode on Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7
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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we're going to show you how to change the mode on Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7.
Steps
- 1To begin, we should have Photoshop open, which can be accessed via the blue and black "PS" icon on our taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
- 2We've demonstrate how to do this in other videos on this website.Once we've done that, we should have either a new document or an existing document open as well.
- 3If we opened another Photoshop document, it would be listed in a separate tab along the top.The open document in our example is listed on a tab on top the left-hand side of the screen.
- 4To change the mode, first click on "Image" on the menu at the top.
- 5Then click on the "Mode", which is the first option on the menu that appears.
- 6We can either choose "Grayscale", "Indexed Color", "CMYK", "Lab", "Multichannel", etc. this will depend on which one of these were selected when the document was created.Bring the cursor across to make a selection.
- 7It is very compatible with printers and is quite easy to use for beginners.It is important to remember when changing the "Mode" that "RGB Color", which is the current one selected in or demonstration, is generally a universal mode.
- 8It's more specifically used for photography labs.Other options are much more technical, such as "Lab Color".
- 9"CMYK" has slightly different printing options.
- 10"Grayscale" turns everything black and white.
- 11Since we have a smart object in this image, it is letting us know that "Changing modes can affect the appearance of smart objects."If we go ahead and click on "Grayscale", it double checks to be sure we want to make the change.
- 12We'll go through that in more detail in another video.It suggests we "Rasterize", so we'll click on that option.
- 13Another window appears suggesting that we flatten image layers.
- 14These pop-up Windows all appeared because I had specific image layers.The next "Message" asks if we should "Discard color information", to which we'll agree to "Discard".
- 15As we can see now, the image is changed to Grayscale, and it is all black and white.
- 16We can also see on the right-hand side panel that our layers have all merged into one.
- 17If desired, click on "Edit" on the menu at the top of the screen.
- 18Then we can choose to "Undo Grayscale" to come back to the original image.
- 19In case we made the change accidentally, this shows us how to come back out of it.When we go into "Mode" again under "Image", we'll note that it is back on "RGB Color".
- 20For now, it is recommended to leave this on the default setting, which is the top one. However, if we are certain of the other settings, we can make those changes. We can also change these settings when we create the document, but if we do want to make any changes, it is useful to know that we can edit the Mode within the open document as well.We also have the option to change the Channels.
- 21If you have any questions or comments, feel free to add them to the section below, and we'll do our best to get back to you.This is a VisiHow video, and we've just shown you how to change the mode on Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7.
Video: Change Mode on Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7
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