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Tag: Channels

How to get perfectly smooth edges on cutouts of people in Photoshop

  We will be using Channels and well as dodging and burning to create our mask. This type of cutout is sometimes called a channel pull, although many channel pulls just use levels and don’t…

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How to blur a photo background in Photoshop using blur masks and Depth Maps

This week I have made a really fun and useful tutorial that not only gives you great results, it will also teach you a little bit about channels. Don’t worry, they aren’t as scary as…

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