From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals

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Loading a selection from a channel

Loading a selection from a channel - Photoshop Tutorial

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Loading a selection from a channel

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In this exercise I'll show you four different ways to load an Alpha Channel as a selection. I'm working inside that file we saved in the previous exercise; it's called Masked man.tif found inside the 02_masks folder. The first method is to go up to the Select menu and choose the Load Selection command and then inside the Load Selection dialog box you can choose from any open document that measures the exact same pixel dimensions that is the same number of pixels wide and the same number of pixels tall. In my case I only have one image open, so that's all I see. Then in your Channels pop up menu you'll see the names of every single alpha channel that's available to you. You won't see the names of your color bearing channels even though there are ways to load those up as selections as we'll see in future chapters. But let's say I want to load the selection that's called Front. I'll go ahead and click on it to select it. You can reverse the selection if you want by clicking on the Invert…

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