Continuing our exploration of a few choice Channel Operation effects, we look at the initially daunting Channel Mixer.

In short, the Channel Mixer allows you to create a custom mix of the red, green, and blue channel information, and use that mix to replace a channel’s normal information – such as mixing some of the green channel’s values into the red channel to enhance it.

Channel Mixer also has a Monochrome switch, converting it into a powerful grayscale mixer. All of this is demonstrated in the video below:

These movies previously appeared in our Insight Into Effects course on Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning. They’ve retired that course from their library, so we’re making them available publicly for free.