The importance of the channel is needless to say, the U.S. PS experts said: "The channel is the core, the mask is the soul", enough to explain the channel in Photoshop important position. As early as a few years ago, a friend asked me to talk about the basic knowledge of the channel and its application skills, because the work has been busy has not written, but always feel owed a friend's account. Although the channel itself is not complex, the proper application of good channels is a very complex and flexible thing.
There is also an important reason is that they are worried about the introduction of a bad or one-sided, both misleading and harm has been, I also need to continue in-depth research and a lot of practice, only fully mature things dare to send out. Channels and applications are the only way to apply the primary PS to advanced PS applications.
From now on, I began to introduce the principle of the channel and its application to the basic knowledge of the image processing, I try to do some of the system, comprehensive, so that you can take into account the novice channel and in-depth research friends, I believe this series will give you later processing photos bring new awareness and height.
If there is a wrong place in the introduction, I hope you will criticize me a lot!
Related tutorials:
1, Photoshop Channel Application Series 1: What's in the channel
2, Photoshop Channel Application Series 2: Channel is a constituency
3, Photoshop Channel Application Series 3: Use Lab lightness channel to convert black and white
4, Photoshop Channel Application Series 4: How to choose the best effect channel
5, Photoshop Channel Application Series 5: The most commonly used channel mixer method
6, Photoshop Channel Application Series 6: Using CMYK black channel plus sharp