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Creating an alpha channel

Creating an alpha channel - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating an alpha channel

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to save a selection as an alpha channel using the save selection command. So I'm gonna start things off by selecting this guy's goggles right here. Basically I wanna select this lens and this one as well, so the left and right hand lenses. Notice what happens if I go ahead and grab the quick selection tool and I just click any old place inside this lens for example, it ends up selecting everything but the highlight. So again this tool doesn't give you much in the way of control. Now I don't wanna totally malign the tool, but I do frequently talk to people who are wondering how do I get this tool to behave itself because when I see it demoed it always works so great and then when I try to use it, it takes so much work. Well it's not you, it's the tool. So what I'm gonna do instead is click and hold on the rectangular marquee tool and select the elliptical marquee from the fly out menu. Then I'll go ahead and press control D or command D on…

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