Combining Image Color Layers

image 1 (R)

Girl3

image 2 (G)

Tree

image 3 (B)

Lena

color separate

grayscale

One of several color systems that Mathematica supports for images has three color layers: red (R), green (G) and blue (B). The "color separate" image uses the layers of each original image to build up a new image. The "grayscale" image converts each original image to grayscale and then uses it as each RGB layer to compose a new image. Of course, information is lost from the original images. If you set the same image for RGB, it produces an original output and a grayscale version of it.