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Channels and Decomposing/Recomposing


JP2R

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Greetings all -

This is my first post to this forum.

I've been watching and learning - and been using Paint.NET for a bit [still very much a beginner]

I found a tutorial that I had wanted to use

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/masking-with-channels-2.html

but it is for Photoshop

and much to my dismay we don't have anything like this [or do we?] when using Paint.NET

I was wondering if this was an oversight on my part - or - if there was a plugin that does this - and I'm looking under the wrong topic?

could one of you experts point me in the right direction - or perhaps provide me with some insight for an alternative...

I love Paint.NET and haven't found another program that I enjoy using more...

I really appreciate any help you can provide me...

Thank you

-- Jae

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The Extract Channel and Alpha Mask Import plugins will be useful for this.

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Progression -

Original

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Original duplicated, top layer set to Color Burn, merged.

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Extract Channel set to CMYK - Cyan, duplicated, top layer set to Overlay, merged.

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Cleaned up with black Paintbrush and white Paintbrush, duplicated, top layer set to Overlay, merged.

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Black-and-white Mask copied to clipboard, Alpha Mask Import plugin effect

applied to original image.( With bottom two boxes checked )

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Different background added.

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9017/channelmasks02.png

Edited by Sarkut
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Thank you very much for your help.

I have taken your information and downloaded the files - I will install them and give this a try...

Thank you

-- Jae

Edited by Ego Eram Reputo
Removed quote - see below
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Hi Jae/ JP2R,

Welcome to the forum!

I've edited your post above to remove the superfluous quote (the entire previous post).

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