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Using Photoshop alpha channels

Using Photoshop alpha channels

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Using Photoshop alpha channels

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- [Instructor] There are some occasions where you want to isolate part of an image in Adobe InDesign without having a hard edge around your selection. And that is exactly where Photoshop Alpha Channels come in handy. I'm here inside of Adobe Photoshop, and I have this picture here. Which is actually a regular image combined with a regular layer mask. Now, let me quickly just hold down the Shift key and click the layer mask thumbnail to temporarily disable the layer mask. Now, if I zoom in just a little bit, you'll clearly see that a part of this image here is actually blurred. So there's a depth perspective happening. And the front here is actually sharp. Now if I were to take the pen tool and draw a path around this, then you'd clearly see that these edges here in the background would be very hard. They would not be blurred in anyway. Because well, it's a path. Either it's visible or invisible. Now, if I use this…

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