MAKE CUTOUTS WITH CHANNELS
PROS
Quick and effective
Lets you create highly intricate masks
CONS
Not recommended for beginners
Success depends on the image
Channels let us make selections based on the colour information in the image, so if the area we want to cut out has a contrasting colour or brightness with the backdrop then Channels can be hugely useful for precise selections in very little time. When we Cmd/ Ctrl+click a channel we load the white parts as a selection, so to creare a cutout we simply need to duplicate one of the channels, modify it to make one part white and the rest black, then make our selection and convert it to a mask…