: Photoshop Black / White Filter I have a bunch of social media icons that are in color that I'd like to make grayscale. I've opened them all in Photoshop and am applying a black and white

@Samaraweera207

My two favourite ways to make things black and white are: The gradient map adjustment layer and the channel mixer adjustment layer. Given what you're after, and the kind of control you want, I'd be opting for the channel mixer adjustment layer.

The channel mixer gives you control over the brightness of each channel, plus lets you make the image monochrome. By adjusting the channel levels while in monochrome, you have the ability to control how the black and white image is constructed.



If you imported all the icons into one document, then added a channel mixer adjustment layer as the top layer, you could find a balance that works for most of the icons, and use that to process them. You could also identify icons that need custom treatment, and even apply that as an adjustment layer, clipped to the icon's layer.

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