How to Use Photoshop Channels for Fast, Complex Cutouts

Thomas Chu Photo

In an earlier tutorial, "Photoshop Channels Explained: Master Color Grading and Selection Skills," Thomas shared the basics of PS channels.

In landscape and portrait retouching, we often need to make local adjustments to subjects with extremely complex edges — hair, foliage, clouds. Today Thomas shares how to use channels for these intricate cutouts.

Video Tutorial

The original frames were shot on a Sony A7R III with a 16-35mm f/2.8 lens and a Fotopro MGC684N tripod~

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