From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Introducing the Multichannel mode - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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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The Masks and Channels panels4m 48s
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How color channels work7m 7s
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Viewing channels in color3m 24s
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How RGB works4m 12s
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Single-channel grayscale5m 12s
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Mixing a custom "fourth" channel5m 15s
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The other three-channel mode: Lab5m 45s
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A practical application of Lab4m 55s
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The final color mode: CMYK7m 6s
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Introducing the Multichannel mode5m 56s
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Creating a unique multichannel effect5m 18s
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The channel is the origin of masking1m 54s
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