Channel Masking in Photoshop

  

                               

Today's tutorial i want to share how to use channel masking in photoshop.You can experiment with filters and filter input values as you become well versed with the concept but consider this as a basic to start with the channels. So, why not have a try...

                   
                     

1. Open Photoshop. Open desired image.

2. Select Elliptical Marquee Tool and draw ellipse in such a way to accommodate the main portion of the image.

3. Click Channel Palette or select Channel Palette Tab.

4. Create New Channel. The Image will become black and the selection will remain on the black background

5. Select > Feather > Feather Radius (16 pixels)

6. Fill White color in the selection by pressing Alt + Del. Deselect the selection with Ctrl + D

7. Filter > Noise > Add Noise

Amount : 34
Distribution : Uniform
Monochromatic

8. Filter > Brush Strokes> Angled Strokes

Direction Balance : 70
Stroke Length : 15
Sharpness : 3

9. Select RGB Channel in the channel palette. Click Layer Tab. Select the image layer.

10. Select > Load Selection

Select Alpha 1

11. Select > Inverse

12. Fill the Image with white color by pressing Alt + Del

 

                  

                    

Hope you can learn something new from this tutorial.

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Reference: insidegraphics