The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers- P7This new book, from Photoshop User magazine editor and bestselling author Scott Kelby, starts at the moment your digital camera photos come into Photoshop, and he shows you the Photoshop pros techniques for managing, correcting, retouching and outputting your photos to knock your client's socks off, and turn you into a Photoshop production wizard.: | The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers Step Seven Rather than draggmg-and-dropping rhe selection from the 8-bit photo to the 16-bit photo after the selection is in place in the 8-bit photo go under the Select menu and choose Save Selection to save this selection as an Alpha channel. Step Eight Although you can t save Alpha channels in 16-bir images you can load channels from other open documents so keep your 8-bit photo open but click on your 16-bic photo co make it active. Then go under the Select menu and choose Load Selection. The Load Selection dialog shown here will appear. Under Source choose your 8-bit document from the Document pop-up menu for Channel choose Alpha 1. Load Xetuon Sourcc Documant DSChOM i-bti Chanoet Alpha 1 LJ inven Operaron Mrw SelKlKX AJa to Setenan iutatMl frpm Vircnon tnwrv i wMF Mte tuw f Carol Step Nine Click OK and this loads the saved selection from the 8-bit photo right into the 16-bit photo as shown . With tne selection in place I was able to use Hue Saturation s Colorize mode to tint the background blue. By the way don t go looking for an Alpha channel in the Channels palette it won t be there because remember 16-bit mode doesn t allow Alpha channels to be saved but surprisingly you can pull a selection in from an 8-bit photo. u Ö DSCNOÏ SBjrc JSX WCI 166 Chapters Masking Techniques The Photoshop Book for Dígita Photographers Masking Techniques Chapters .
