How to Create Perfect Selections Using Channels in Photoshop
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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How to Create Perfect Selections Using Channels in Photoshop
Channels are a great way to make extremely accurate selections! Prepare to make magic happen- even with highly detailed line drawings!
Although there are many different techniques that could yield similar results, Channels can provide the most accurate selections of all.
Section 1: Making Selections
To begin, click over to the Channels tab (if it is not showing up, go to Window - Channels).
Since our image is black and white, we can use any of the Channels to get the selection we want (we use the Blue Channel for this particular example). However, this will change if your image is in color. Click on each Channel to see which selects the most of what you need, and then duplicate it by either Holding Cmd + J or dragging the Channel down to the new layer icon.
Hold Ctrl/Cmd and click on the duplicate layer to create the selection. This selects the lightest areas, so if you need the dark areas selected simply go to Select - Inverse.
Section 2: Adding Color to Selection
With the selection active, create a new Solid Color Adjustment layer. This will automatically make a layer mask and fill the selection with whatever color you choose! That is why you can capture incredible detail with this method; it fills everything in seamlessly.
Section 3: Design Details
To begin really turning this into a piece of art, we crop the image into a square to give it some visual breathing room.
Then, we start to play with color! We create another Solid Color Adjustment layer and place it underneath the illustration layer to act as the background.
At this point, you should discover why this technique is so efficient: you can change the color of those color fill layers as much as you’d like!
You can also have lots of fun playing with the styling of the image. We duplicate the layer of the wolf and move it up a bit, which gives a sort of screenprint effect. We then add a blue Color Fill layer on top of the already present orange layer. Then, we add a Gradient from black to transparent which acts as a mask for part of the color. The result is a beautiful fade from one color to another! And, as you already know, you can always go back in and adjust those colors. In this case we decide to stick with a cool palette, and use blue and green.
For a final artistic touch, we create a white Color Fill copy of the wolf and scale it up (Cmd + T) as another layer of the background. You are able to see through it, but we lower the opacity even more so that the effect is nice and subtle.
We end up with a beautiful graphic image by simply playing with Channels and colors!!
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Another awesome tutorial! Thanks Aaron and Phlearn team!
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Layer masks and channels are some of the most important tools to learn in Photoshop, and go under used. Thank you.
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hello phlearn team! thanks for the amazing tutorials, i learnt A LOT from them. i just tried this method today and it's AMAZING. wish someone taught me earlier!
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Thank you very much for this tutorial. It will help me a lot. A great weekend my friend.
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The recap at the end of the video is really useful. Cheers
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keep up the good work! your videos are the best. thanks a lot, I'm always learning new things from you.
Amazing video! Thank you for adding me a new way to select things!
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You had already gone over this in one of your previous tutorials in depth. I don't know if it needed it's own video, but nonetheless it is a well produced video and more detailed in the approach and applications. Nice work!
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I've been looking for a video like this for a long time. thank you so much!
OMG! I love this. I have a few digital illustrations I purchased and I wanted to colorized them but I was having a hard time using the
Magic sand tool to make the selection since it was more of a detailed image. This will will make it so much easier for me. Can't wait to try it out! Thank you Aaron! Phlearn is awesome!
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Informative video, great for re-capping when I've not used PS for a while!
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hey man... the gradient technique was amazing...thanks a lot!!! :D
I'm always amazed by how many things they teach in one video
Awesome video, I would like more videos on editing video in photoshop :)
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Great video! Helped me break through on a current illustration :D
Super cool. Reminds me of screen printing.
Another great episode! Do you know if there is a way in Photoshop to have the subject in focus but the background looking like a really long shutter speed (ie people moving really fast) if you know how to do this could you please make a video teaching us how? Thank you so much, and keep making awesome video.
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Great result, but what are the advantages between selecting from the channel and a color range selection ? thx
Awesome tutorial like always! :)
Interesting video! Can't wait for new tutorials!! :D
I was thinking, could you make a video on how to start a business as a teenager! Cause I am 16 right now and I really love photography and also would love to make money out of it!
Thanks a lot for the tutorial, it really helps me to make accurate selections
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It's very much appreciable how you teach Photoshop. I'm a great fan.
Would you please teach how to sharpen an image which has missed the focus during taking photo with camera?
Thanks
Great the way you topped off the video with a review. I think some people starting out would simply like a video that explains what a layer mask really is. I've always found that anything in an instruction that is assumed to be clear to the student and isn't causes the students mind to freeze and not get what follows clearly. They may remember steps, but they don't understand why things are working. So, explaining why one uses a layer mask, and what it is, is important even with this.
this is so great !!! very useful, thanks..
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A very useful tutorial. Thanks!
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Love your tutorial very much! Thanks so much. Can you teach how to get the highlight on a shirt photo?
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Great stuff! Thank you. Channels rock
Thank you for all your video' i i have leant a lot from this channel.. may i ask about problem i always face when shooting black things like cloths and surfaces they have a white declaration..is that fixable?
Love your tutorials. What software are you using to video screen capture your videos? Any recommendations for a Mac.
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awesome tutorial!
I wonder why do we need to create a duplicate channel?
Thanks again!
Its so you don't affect the information on the original image's blue channel.
Simply Awesome. Thank you Sir!
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Aaron, could you do an episode with some tips on how to edit outdoor children photography? I tend to take a lot of those and any tips would be great.
Great tutorial, Aaron! Instead of creating two different color layers and adding a mask on the top color layer to simulate a gradient, couldn't you just have one layer and use a gradient layer effect? I guess it would be faster to change the gradient colors if I did it your way.
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Really cool!
Hi Aaron, thanks for the episode. I really like it. Actually I was wondering if we could double the blue channel, or add green channel to blue channel, etc. If it is possible, how could we do that?
I have some detailed art- which im trying to put onto Tshirts. But i fear its so detailed that when i put it onto a Tshirt it will require too many colors. I was thinking of trying a monochrome style ( its all black inked art ) or JUST coloring the lines/strokes different colors? I am unsure if this is possible or just a bad idea in general. Maybe you could make a video on this! lol I really like your videos youre great at explaining.
You guys are awesome :)
Love these tutorials! I really appreciate it.
Hi Aaron, we have the name invers, mine is Nora, with out the other a.Great tutorial. I’m learning some illustration to use in prints on fabric. The las step when you grouped the top adjustment layer and applied a layer mask, could you please what key combination you used to group and to apply the layer mask. Thanks
That was cool!
i love discovering more of your old videos Aaaron that i missed before. your teaching is always amazing and this is such a great tip. Thanks man!
Do you do your line art in photoshop? That looks really good
Aaron great video!!
I was wondering how this (or better selection approach) can help with the photos where photoshop is simply unable to do the job for us. Is there a way to jump between colour layers to fix our selection in a hard to work with photo?
excellent video!
You are wonderful in the commentary Thanks #AARON
Hi Aaron . thank you , i learned so much from your tutorials . The channels stuff is great and you make it so easy to understand .
What i am interested in , is , can the black and white channel be used as an alpha for zbrush ? and how do you save it ? Thanks .
really love your tutorials! thanks a lot for making these techniques so clear and simple.
btw i'm curious about what app you used for making the video? maybe you can share some using tips of it as well?
I use this method a lot, but some of your color tips are even more useful … thanks … !
Thanks for this!
Hey Plearn. Could you guys do a robot effect video ? I have seen other videos of it but i think it would be much kooler if you did it. Thanks in advance