I need a program that separetes the colors of one single image. Ex: I have one single image (.jpg or .gif etc.) but I want to separate img into as many color as it may have. That is, if one image as 4 colors, i want to make 4 images each color. Thx

I know that Photoshop will show the Red, Green, Blue channels of a picture. But, you realize pictures can have hundreds or thousands of unique colors?

It depends on what mode the image was last saved in. The Color Seration you are refering to is known as Channeling. Photoshop has much to do with the channels. The two most popular modes images are saved in are RGB(The most colors), and CMYK(Photographic Colors.) RGB has all of the colors that the CMYK has and then then some. The first has three channels, Red, Green, and Blue. The second has 4, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. These are located in the Channels Pallette. The only problem here is that the values of the seperated color channells are represented in grayscale. What do you want to Seperate the color for? The image quality of a single channel is'nt usually near as good as the combination. It only makes sense, if you have a well balanced image the presence of just one of the channels is only 1/3 or 1/4 of the image. Each of the pixels in the image will be sacraficed. You could select the entirety of a channell, copy it, switch to the layers pallette, paste, and then convert the grayscale values to color with the Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation>Colorize toggle. This would give you the option of coloring with 256 different tones. Or you can use Red(R=255, G=0, B=0) in the color selector to affect the Hue slider. That should be what you want. If you just want to see the image in a single color tone, Photoshop can do this also in a couple ways. First, with the Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation>Colorize toggle via playing with the Hue slider, and the second via a modes known as mono/duo/tri/an d quardatones.

Once you've clicked OK to step 3, your image will go from looking like the one one the left to the picture on the right! = )

Paint Shop Pro and Corel Photopaint will also separate an image into channels, and they cost a LOT less than Photoshop. Steve

But then that just does'nt look right...the values of the cloth in the origional are much richer, I wonder where my theory went wrong...anyone? = )

could it be that they're out of gamut??

I'd rather say that the original rich red was made of greens and blues, too. So when you removed them, you're left with only the red component. IMBW, of course.