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- The Channels dialog is the main interface to edit, modify and manage
- your channels. Channels have a double usage. This is why the dialog is
- divided into two parts: the first part for color channels and the
- second part for selection masks.
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- Color channels: Color channels apply to the image and not to a
- specific layer. Basically, three primary colors are necessary to
- render all the wide range of natural colors. As other digital
- software, the<span class="acronym">Gimp</span> uses Red, Green, and Blue as
- primary colors. The first and primary channels display the
- <span class="guilabel">Red</span>, <span class="guilabel">Green</span>, and
- <span class="guilabel">Blue</span> values of each pixel in your image. In front
- of each channel is a thumbnail displaying a grayscale representation of
- each channel, where white is 100% and black is 0% of the primary color.
- Alternatively, if your image is not a colored but a Grayscale image,
- there is only one primary channel called <span class="guilabel">Gray</span>. For
- an Indexed image with a fixed number of known colors there is also only
- one primary channel called <span class="guilabel">Indexed</span>. Then there is
- a secondary optionnal channel called <span class="guilabel">Alpha</span>. This
- channel displays transparency values of each pixel in your image. In
- front of this channel is a thumbnail displaying a grayscale
- representation of the transparency where white is opaque and visible,
- and black is transparent and invisible. If you create your image
- without transparency then the Alpha channel is not present, but you can
- add it from the <a href="ch04s02.html" title="2. Layers dialog">Layers dialog
- menu</a>. Also, if you have more than one layer in your image,
- Gimp automatically creates an Alpha channel.
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- Gimp doesn't support CMYK or YUV color models.
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- Representation of an image with channels:
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- The right image is decomposed in
- three color channels (red, green, and blue) and the Alpha channel for
- transparency. On the right image the transparency is displayed as a
- gray checkerboard. In the color channel white is always white because
- all the colors are present and black is black. The red hat is visible
- in the red channel but quite invisible in the other channels. This is
- the same for plain green and blue which are visible only in their own
- channels and invisible in others.
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- The Channel dialog can be activated in many ways :
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- from the toolbox-menu:
- <span class="guimenu">File</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Channels</span>
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- from the image-menu:
- <span class="guimenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guimenuitem">Channels</span>
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- from another dialog-menu:
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