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When you are working in Photoshop it's a good idea to understand some of the color spaces that you will be dealing with. I'm going to talk about the three most commonly used color spaces which are located under the image menu. And you see under the mode we see we have Greyscale, index color, RGB, CMYK and others. So I'm gonna talk about RGB, CMYK, and Greyscale. Let's start off with RGB which stands for red, green and blue color. When you are in RGB mode you want to make sure that the project you are creating is going to be scene on the computer screen or on a television monitor or even a movie screen. Whenever you dealing with pixels that are projected such as what you'd see on TV or on a computer monitor you are dealing with RGB value, red, green and blue which are the primary colors. Then those three colors combine to make the gazillions and zillions of colors that you see when you're watching TV and when you're watching something on the web or you're playing a video game on the computer. So once again if your going to uh stay in the realm of the computer monitor or TV monitor the RGB space is where you are gonna be. Now if you're gonna go to press, you're gonna make a magazine for example, you are gonna go to CMYK color. This stands for cyan, magenta, yellow and black, the four colors are combined only at printing press to give you all the colors you see on a magazine cover, for example. So what happens is when your printer is printing your magazine the magazine is divided into four passes, so as the artwork goes through the ink it goes through one of these four colors and then each color is added one at a time until you have all the combinations that give you your millions of color for your magazine. So once again if you are going to go to an output of some kind with a printing press then CMYK is going to be your best bet. Now Greyscale is helpful when you want to work in values that are in Greyscale or are no color information except for the values from light to dark. The 256 values from zero to 255. So what you do is you discard the color information and then you're working in Greyscale at this point. And you'll also notice that when you're in Greyscale a lot of the filters can still be applied. For example, you can still put a Gaussian blur on and you can still work in all of the other modes but you won't have the color information. So make sure that you know, if you want to make sure you gonna print in color, stay in one of these modes here. So the Greyscale is nice when you want to achieve some kind of photographic effect or you want to you know try to create some nice color balance and some kind of nice mood. And I just talk about one more actually, this is dual tone and dual tone kind of gives you that interesting effect as you'd see in one of those old fashion movies, so you can choose a color for your dual tone. You can choose black and you can choose something like a sepia color and then you can have this nice dual tone feel for your images. And that's once again like those old photographs you know of your grandmother when, when she was a young, young lass going to the uh hop and that kind of thing. So the color modes are up here and sometimes when you are working in Photoshop if one or more of your files is in a different color space such as index color and your trying to bring it into another image that's RGB and your not able to drag that into the other image make sure you just go up here and take a quick look at what mode its in and just change it to the appropriate mode so you can work with it in Photoshop.