1. Desaturation - By using the Desaturate command, you can convert all of the colors on the active layer to corresponding shades of gray. This differs from converting the image to grayscale in two respects. First, it only operates on the active layer and second, the colors on the layer are still RGB values with three components.
2. Inversion - Color inversion traces its roots to analog photography. Inverting a traditional black-and-white film negative turns the dark areas light, transforming the negative into a recognizable image. With digital art, color inversion is now mainly used to generate a new color palette or a new version of your original artwork. White becomes black, red areas appears as cyan, green to magenta, orange becomes blue, and so on. A way to think of it is to pick a point on the color wheel, draw a line from it going through the center of the wheel, and extending the same distance from the center into the opposite direction. And that’s your complimentary chromaticity.
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