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Introducing the Multichannel mode

Introducing the Multichannel mode - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing the Multichannel mode

In this exercise, we're going to take a look at the No Color Multichannel mode. Now the Multichannel mode is really designed to house masks. So imagine you have four or five masks that you've created, you want to offload them to a file independent from the original image for whatever reason, then Multichannel would be the mode to use, because you're not forcing Photoshop to create some sort of interaction between the channels and deliver a composite color image. However, I'm going to show you this really cool use for Multichannel, how we can achieve an interesting effect and that way you'll get a sense of how Multichannel works as well as experiencing a new technique. One, between you and me you're not going to find out anywhere else, but it's a really nice effect. We're going to start off with this file called Baseline toucan.psd. It's the same composition, but without the swatches and the labels, and we're going to change it into this file Alternative toucan.psd. And I suppose this…

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