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Introducing the Channels panel

Introducing the Channels panel - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing the Channels panel

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- [Instructor] I'm gonna start things off by introducing you to the Channels panel, which serves as a kind of command central for masking inside Photoshop. We'll be working inside this colorful composition right here which I've based on a photograph from the Dreamstime Image Library, about which you can learn more and get some great deals at dreamstime.com/deke.php. All right, I'll go ahead and turn off that Dreamstime layer so that we can focus on the image itself. Now, the original photograph contained plenty of colors, including the reds, the oranges, and the greens in the beak, as well as these bright yellows. It did not, however, contain the blues and violets that we're seeing in the background, and that's a function of this grab layer right here, so notice if I turn the layer off, the background is comparatively drab, and then if I turn that layer on, we have a wealth of blue and violets. And that's a function of working with this editable gradient layer, and you can create…

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