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Masking with Channels
Using channels to create detailed masks.
Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.
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Alex said on — March 29, 2008 @ 6:44 pm
AWESOME!!!
markuss5 said on — April 16, 2008 @ 4:37 am
great tutorial!
Hamish said on — June 4, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
Thanks. This works great on white backgrounds but could channels be used for images such as this: http://www.janetedmunson.com/img/edmunson_portrait004.jpg?
The background and foreground do contrast, but I cant find an effective way to enhance that contrast in order to use it for selection.
Could you give us some pointers for photographs such as these?
Thank you!
Petie said on — June 29, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
Great it looks so easy, some day I to will be good.
hatori said on — August 26, 2008 @ 6:12 am
loooooool nice job
it is realy amazing
keep it up ^_^
zeus709 said on — September 3, 2008 @ 11:25 am
Whooooo! Fantastic job.
To date without any doubt the BEST MASKING Tutorial I’ve come across.
I’ve be following ALL of your turorials.
Great Job
Ahmad said on — September 26, 2008 @ 9:55 am
Your tutorial is very good. But my doubt is if the background is not white? Can we apply this method ?
Ahsheuqe said on — March 15, 2009 @ 11:48 pm
Man thanks a bunch this is a life saver. I really needed this.
Carly said on — April 18, 2009 @ 7:43 am
WONDERFUL!! I have been looking for something like this all morning. I had nailed the overlay / channels but couldn’t understand what was going wrong – no other tutorial had mentioned about inverting the selection!!!
THANK YOU!
rafael said on — August 12, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
Thank you it really help me understand channel.