Channels and Masks - Photoshop CS2 Training DVD

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