If you have ever found your self selecting and then re-selecting the same portion of an image in Photoshop then you are in dire need of Alpha Masks.
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Lets just jump right in to the subject of channels. I will attempt to explain everything as it happens. You dont have to do everything shown below. Hopefully, I have provided ...
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3. Channels photoshopcafe.com hide layer 1 and Ctrl/Cmd click on layer 2.This is the image we are going to make 3d. You could start at this point with any image as long as it ...
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Click on the Channels palette while pressing Ctrl and select, in my case, the Statue Alpha. Now click inside the RGB layer. Next, press the Shift key and drag the ...
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I found that the Red Channel had a decent amount of contrast between the water and tree trunks, so I duplicated it and repeated the process described in Steps 2-6 above ... |
we can start by using any one of a number of different extraction methods (in this case, I used channels, which is another article all on its own).
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To create a spot channel, take the following steps: 1. Load the elements to which you want to apply the spot color as a selection. For example, if its type, Ctrl-click ... |
First, it's important to note that our image is in RGB mode, and that we will be sticking in this mode throughout the course of this tutorial. If you read Part ...
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Now, we'll start with some of the true fundamentals. First, you can access your channels by opening up the Channels Palette (Window - Channels from in the menu). This is where ...
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Photographer Chris Alvanas wants to take some time to go over Channels. That's because understanding what they are and what they do is key to understanding what their potential is. |
You can use up to 10 channels, including RGB, CMYK, and Lab in hard cases. But in the given example RGB channels were enough to make the picture better and give ... |
For RGB images (the one used for this tutorial) you'll see 3 main channels, each for one of the basic color of the image (R, G and B) and one containing ... |
Next, go 'Select/Load Selection/' and because the background is transparent, from the list choose '(LayerName) Transparency', as I have captured below. |
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You can view the channels individually by selecting them such as you would in the layers palette. You can use the channels palette to make lots of corrections to an image ... |
For me (and Im sure everyone else would take the same approach), I would ordinarily opt to do the fastest/easiest method i.e. the Magic Wand Tool. We know this tool is ... |
A client of mine was illustrating an article about the World Economic Forum whose annual meeting is usually held in scenic Davos in Switzerland. My client was keen to stress the ...
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An "Alpha Channel" is basically a mask, it masks out whatever is on the "Alpha Layer". It is an 8-bit channel, which means that it has 256 levels of gray from ...
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This tutorial will describe how to make a Color correction for a picture using Channels in Photoshop. Well look at using Lens Blur and Blending option to make a simple glow ... |
Hey everyone! Im back with the second half of this two part series about using Photoshop as a means of extracting a subject from its background, and am very sorry that ...
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I found that the Red Channel had a decent amount of contrast between the water and tree trunks, so I duplicated it and repeated the process described in Steps 2-6 above ... |
The answer lies in the Window/Optimize palette. As I have captured below and encased in red, the Mask button can be used to load a Channel to modify color reduction or ...
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