Split and Merge Color Channels

Learn about color channels and splitting and merging them.

Let’s learn some advanced techniques to edit images in OpenCV.

Color channels are the main component of a color image. Learning to separate these color channels will help us understand different color intensities in the image and allows us to create monochrome images.

What are color channels?

A color image consists of three color channels—blue, green, and red. We merge these three color channels to create color images. OpenCV allows us to split an image into its respective color channels. Additionally, it allows us to merge the color channels to form a color image.

Split color channels

To split color channels, we use the split() method of the OpenCV library.

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