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Creating Selections From Channels in Photoshop

September 28, 2020

I just finished up with writing a post right here on the blog. It had to do with creating a selection from a color channel in Photoshop. I wrote a lot in that post and thought that I’d offer a much more simplified process here. Creating selections from channels is really easy and all it takes is one or two steps. Check them out below.

– Open a photo or graphic in Photoshop.

– Open the Channels panel by going to the Window > Channels menu item.

– When you see the individual color channels, click on one to inspect it in the larger image view in the workspace.

– When you’re sure you have the channel for the colors you’d like to select, hold down the Ctrl (Command on Mac) key and then click once on the channel thumbnail.

– Doing this will create the selection for the colors in the channel.

Once the selection is made, you can do whatever you wish with it. In the post, I used adjustment layers to desaturate some colors and saturate others. It created a pretty cool effect.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please ask below. Thanks!

Related posts:

  1. Masking Images with Alpha Channels
  2. How to Make Selections Based on Channels in Adobe Photoshop
  3. How to Save Selections & Smart Objects as Alpha Channels in Adobe Photoshop
  4. Converting Selections into Alpha Channels
  5. Working with Channels in Adobe Photoshop

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