Isolating elements with channels

…One of the most often overlooked methods for creating selections of…individual parts of an image is to actually use a, an old school method.…And that's to go into your channels.…In the channels you actually get the luminance values for…the red, the green, and the blue channel if it's an RGB image.…So, that's what we're going to be doing in this exercise.…Having access to each one of those channels will give us a different starting…point so that we have a little bit easier time creating our selections.…Once you have the image open,…let's make sure we're all working with a similar interface.…

Go to the upper right hand corner and click on the pull down and…make sure it's set to essentials.…If you are set to essentials and it still doesn't look like this,…click on the pull down, and choose reset essentials.…Alright, now that we have a similar interface,…let's jump into the channels panel.…So, the key to working with channels,…is to actually not ever click on the eyeballs.…You want to click directly on each individual channel to look at…