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Creating a unique multichannel effect - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Creating a unique multichannel effect
All right, so far we have this warm and colorful variation on the toucan that we've assembled in a Multi-Channel mode, but we ultimately want it to look like this. So we still have some work left ahead of us. Notice that this final version of the image is an RGB file. If you're following along with me, you want to make sure that you have that original image Baseline toucan.psd open and waiting for you on screen. And for what it's worth, I've gone ahead and saved out my progress as Multichannel image.psd. All right! So far, we've got this image that says it has Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black channels, but notice that there is no composite view at the top of the stack. And if you switch over to Layers panel, you're not going to see a very good preview of the image. In fact, we're just seeing the contents of the selected channel, which happens to be cyan, and therefore, the thumbnail is entirely white. What we need to do is assign some sort of meaning to this image. Now, we can't just…
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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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