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Generate Amazing Text FX
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Create AMAZING Text FX Online!

Generate your own amazing, photoshop quality text effects online! textfx.co

How To Get The Most Out of Alpha Channels in Photoshop
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How To Get The Most Out of Alpha Channels in Photoshop

Live from Macworld Conference & Expo, 2009, digital artist Bert Monroy explains what an alpha channel is and where you can and can't apply a filter channel in a Photoshop painting.

Professional Quality Black And White Conversions With "Lab" Color And Channels
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Professional Quality Black And White Conversions With "Lab" Color And Channels

Learn how to easily achieve professional quality black and white conversions of your photos with the "Lab" color mode and Channels, and finish it off with a couple of layer blend modes.

Hair Extraction
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Hair Extraction

Take something with hair, extract it perfectly to fit onto another background

RGB And Color Channels In Photoshop Explained
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RGB And Color Channels In Photoshop Explained

If RGB is just a three letter word to you and color channels are something you watch on tv, your Photoshop work is suffering. Learn how Photoshop displays colors in your images and take your skills to the next level.

Advanced Background Extraction Techniques
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Advanced Background Extraction Techniques

Advanced techniques for blending your extracted element into a new background from a different image.

Master Masking with Photoshop's Alpha Channels
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Master Masking with Photoshop's Alpha Channels

Much can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire weight of Photoshop to the task of editing a selection. And masking, thy name is alpha channel.

Digging into Channels as an Extraction Tool – Part 2
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Digging into Channels as an Extraction Tool – Part 2

This is the second half of a 2 part series on how to use channels in Photoshop as a means of extracting a subject from its background.

How to Apply Spot Color and Spot UV Channels in Photoshop
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How to Apply Spot Color and Spot UV Channels in Photoshop

If you use Photoshop® extensively, you should be familiar with Channels. Channels are used to masks areas of an image, cut specific areas from an image or apply adjustment or effects to specific areas of an image.

Photoshopping Gold Text with Channels
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Photoshopping Gold Text with Channels

In this tutorial, we learn how to create incredibly realistic Gold text using channels in Photoshop. The effect produces perfect results!

How to Use Channels for Masks in Photoshop
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How to Use Channels for Masks in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to make accurate selections and masks using channels. This works very well in advanced selections if your subject is on a background with consistent colors.

How to Use Spot Color Channels for Printing
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How to Use Spot Color Channels for Printing

This tutorial shows you how to use spot color channels in Photoshop CS4 to achieve precise color for professional printing projects. This tool is important in order to achieve precise colors when your project is actually printed.

How to Adjust Levels on Color Channels
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How to Adjust Levels on Color Channels

This tutorial shows you how to use the levels adjustment on a per-channel basis for color correction tool in Photoshop. For many professional photo editors, this is a key point to their post-processing.

Matte Painting 101: Basic Extraction and Composition Techniques
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Matte Painting 101: Basic Extraction and Composition Techniques

Today’s tutorial, Matte Painting 101: Basic Extraction and Composition Techniques will teach you some quick ways to extract objects from their background and combine them with other images to produce the scene that you need. Let’s get started!

Channels 101 Creating Rock
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Channels 101 Creating Rock

Quick Rock texture using channels.

Channels
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Channels

How to get the 3D look with channels.

Channels
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Channels

What are they, and why should you care? Theyíre simple, theyíre fun, and they are powerful and useful tools for editing and creating images. Find detailed explanations.

Smooth Out Jaggies with Channels
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Smooth Out Jaggies with Channels

Here's a channels technique that can produce better smooth-edged results.

Extraction
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Extraction

Learn to extract a person or thing out of an image.

Difficult Extractions
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Difficult Extractions

Learn how to separate an image form its background, especially where areas are difficult like blowing hair.

ImageReady Channels
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ImageReady Channels

A simple process to create and utilize ImageReady channels to optimize quality or reduce color for final output.

Extraction Technique
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Extraction Technique

Having a hard time with the lasso tool? Trying to extract more complex images with jagged edges? This tutorial will show you how to extract those more complex images with ease.

Using Channels to make Selections
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Using Channels to make Selections

This method is often used when other methods have not given you the results you were expecting.

Extractions
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Extractions

Make accurate cutouts using the extract tool in conjunction with the layer mask.

Sketch Extraction
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Sketch Extraction

Learn how to extract black and white or grey scale sketches from their backgrounds to another layer quickly and easily using alpha channels.

Image Extraction
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Image Extraction

This tutorial will teach you how to cut out an image from its background, pixel-perfectly.

Quick Masks and Alpha Channels
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Quick Masks and Alpha Channels

Learn how to select any object using Quick Masks and then learn the importance of Alpha Channels.

Extraction
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Extraction

Learn a variety of different ways to extract a render from a background in this detailed tutorial.

Using Channels to Make Selections
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Using Channels to Make Selections

There are so many ways you can make selections in Photoshop. The trick is getting to know them all so that you can choose the quickest and easiest method for a particular photo.

Image Extraction
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Image Extraction

Learn how to make your own render by pulling out parts of an image.

Using Calculations and Channels to Create Masks
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Using Calculations and Channels to Create Masks

We all agree that masks are extremely useful and look a whole lot better than cutting the object out of its background with the Lasso or Pen Tool. But wouldn't it be nice if there were an easier, quicker way to get the basic shape separated from the

Extraction of Disturbing Elements
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Extraction of Disturbing Elements

Learn how to use the clone stamp tool along with other filters to manipulate a photo and remove a disturbing element.

Object Extraction
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Object Extraction

Extract an object from its background to its own layer.

Create Spot Channels
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Create Spot Channels

Learn how to create a spot channel.

Remove White Using Channels
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Remove White Using Channels

See how to turn a photo's white background into transparency using channels.

Spot Color Channels
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Spot Color Channels

Learn how to create spot colors on an offset or web press.

Channels: An Introduction
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Channels: An Introduction

A detailed introduction to channels. If you are interested in learning about channels then this is a good place to start.

Alpha Channels
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Alpha Channels

Introduction to alpha channels: what are alpha channels, and when and how to use them.

Using Halftone filter and channels photoshop technique Halftone Text effect Tips
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Using Halftone filter and channels photoshop technique Halftone Text effect Tips

Using Halftone filter and channels photoshop technique Halftone Text effect Tips

Clean extraction of a black image from a white background
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Clean extraction of a black image from a white background

A very quick and simple way to cleanly extract a black image or logo from a white background to use in your photo.

Making cleaner selections using the color channels palette
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Making cleaner selections using the color channels palette

An introduction to using the color palette and how it can be used to create clean selections of objects in photoshop.

Masking out hairs using Alpha Channels
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Masking out hairs using Alpha Channels

Alpha channels are basically specialized selection processes. Alpha channels are used to make, store or edit selections made using tools such as Lasso, Magic wand or Pen tool.

Channels
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Channels

How to get the 3D look with channels.