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Creating a unique multichannel effect

Creating a unique multichannel effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a unique multichannel effect

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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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