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1. How Channels Work
- Channels are everything
- The Channels palette
- Channels in color
- RGB color
- Single-channel grayscale
- Lab color
- CMYK plates
- The weird world of Multichannel
- Duotones, tritones, and quadtones
- 16-bit advantages
2. How Masks Work
- The non-color-bearing channel
- The alpha channel
- The anatomy of a mask
- Making an alpha channel
- Saving both image and alpha channel
- Loading an alpha channel
- Putting a mask in play
- Viewing a mask as a translucent overlay
- Modifying a mask
- Combining masks
- The lossless translation
3. Selection Essentials
- The Selection tools still matter
- The core tools
- Selection vs. selection outline
- The floating selection
- The Anti-Alias checkbox
- How anti-aliasing works
- Photoshop's icon, the feather
- The Magic Wand revealed
- Selecting with the Wand
- Dragging and dropping
- Perfecting your composition
- The Magnetic Lasso
- Add, subtract, and intersect
- Networking selection outlines
- The Polygonal Lasso trick
- Finessing your selection outline
- Transforming a selection outline
- Select menu cleanup
4. Color Range and Quick Mask
- The best tool is a command
- The Color Range command
- Primary colors and brightness ranges
- Sample All Layers
- Quick Mask and Smooth
- Contract and Composite
- Now for something a bit more complicated
- Evaluating the selection outline
- Painting in the Quick Mask mode
- Enhancing the contrast with Levels
- Performing manual fixes
- Moving edges with Gaussian Blur and Levels
- The final composition
5. Everyday Channel Masking
- It's time to select some hair
- Choosing a base channel
- Levels or Curves
- Overlay painting: The Highlights
- Overlay painting: The Shadows
- Cleaning up with the Lasso
- Re-aliasing a selection outline
- Fixing the rough patches
- Testing your mask
- The Silhouette effect
- Introduction to Hair Composition
- Blending hair and skin tones
- Select menu equivalents
- Toasting the edges
- Inner Glow and Canvas Size
6. Blends and Composites
- The world of parametric editing
- Bringing in a scanned logo
- The power of Multiply
- Invert and Screen
- Coloring a logo
- The amazing Difference logo
- Secondary blend modes
- Blending images together
- Luminance blending
- Selecting a Blend If channel
- More fun with luminance blending
- Blending a masked image
- Building the transition layers
- Matching the colors
7. Layer-Specific Masks
- Layer masks, clipping masks, and knockouts
- A jet of motion blur
- Keyboard tricks
- Blending two photographs
- Masking an adjustment layer
- Enhancing the adjustment mask
- Completing the adjustment layers
- Welcome to the glass composition
- Balancing shadows and highlights
- Masking the glass
- Masking the text
- Adding a goldfish
- Creating an exposure mask
- Adding a knockout mask
8. Specialty Masks
- The corrective power of masking
- The amazing luminance mask
- Luminance mask vs. luminance blending
- Using a corrective mask
- Modifying specific colors
- Initiating a color mask
- Refining a color mask
- Perfecting hair
- Sharpening with High Pass
- The equally amazing Density Map
- Adjusting the knockout depth
- Fashioning a depth map
- Blurring a background
- Sharpening an archival photograph
- Creating an edge mask
- Applying an edge mask
- Customizing your sharpness layer
9. Channel Mixing and Other Tricks
- Channel Mixer, I am your father
- Industry-standard grayscale
- Mixing a custom black-and-white image
- Adding contrast and a hint of color
- Extreme channel mixing
- The infrared photography effect
- Building highlights, leeching saturation
- Deepening a black-and-white sky
- Imbuing colors into luminosity levels
- Bolstering contrast with the Green channel
- A simple approach to red-eye
- A more accurate approach to red-eye
10. Calculations
- Chops are dead, long live maskops
- The Calculations command
- Calculating a blue screen selection
- Employing a blue screen mask
- Rendering layer effects
- Shrinking a transparency mask
- Cloud calculations
- Add and Subtract
- Focus, noise, and other masking challenges
- Employing the Subtract mode
- Enhancing the contrast with Curves
- Gathering details with Apply Image
- Burn shadows, dodge highlights
- Painting and restoring hair
- Completing a mask and putting it in play
- A few new compositing techniques
11. Masking the Tough Stuff
- Where there's a will, there's a way
- Masking natural cast shadows
- Creating a difference mask
- Adding an object mask
- Amplifying a cast shadow
- Masking blonde hair
- Merging two alpha channels
- More fun with Dodge and Burn
- Drag, drop, and composite
- Amplifying a flame
- Masking an image against a busy background
- Masking with arbitrary maps
- Creating a High Pass mask
- Mastering Calculations
12. D-Maps and Lighting Effects
- Photoshop flirts with the third dimension
- The Displacement Map
- Making custom waves
- Creating a waving, shaded flag
- Moonlight reflecting on water
- Mapping the reflection onto the water
- Dipping the moon into the water
- Turning flesh into stone
- Wrapping stone around a face
- Making a repeating URL pattern
- 3-D embossing with Lighting Effects
- The amazing credit card type effect
- Lighting credit card letters
- Wrapping the background around the text
Conclusion
- Goodbye
Photoshop CS2 Channels & Masks Info
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The elusive alpha channel remains one of the most misunderstood yet powerful tools in Photoshop. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of an image, and they inform just about every aspect of Photoshop. Selections, layer boundaries, masks, the Quick Mask mode, layer masks, knockouts, and masking with the Channels palette all rely on alpha channels. In Photoshop CS2 Channels and Masks , award-winning author and Photoshop expert Deke McClelland teaches channels and masks comprehensively. From channel masks to blue screens, blend modes to displacement maps, Color Range to Calculations, this training leaves no pixel unturned. Deke also covers how to select and composite highlights, shadows, people, fabric, feathers, glass, flames, lighting, and wispy hair. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.. Close »
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| Duration: | 21.75 hours - 169 lessons |
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