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  • how to change channels to visual layers?

    Posted by Michal Rockman-pollard on September 3, 2009 at 8:33 am

    I have recieved a psd image which is built of 1 layer (no background)

    when I turn the eye off I can still see some of the image – however, it’s like a ghost as I shouldn’t be able to see anything.
    I need to work with this detail, but its impossible as there’s no layer, the only thing is that I can see it on the channel box as several channels
    Is there a way to change the channels into layers?
    I’m in desperate help!
    Thanks,
    Michal

    David Cabestany replied 16 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Theo Van laar

    September 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    So your file has a channel with information you want to use on your layer? Go to the channel tab and duplicate this channel (by context clicking and selecting the DUPLICATE CHANNEL option.
    Next you go to the menu bar: SELECT-LOAD SELECTION and select the duplicated channel. It will appear as a selection on your layer.

    Theo

  • David Cabestany

    September 19, 2009 at 9:22 am

    There’s a command called split channels into files or something like that, it grabs each channel of your current image and saves it. Into a separate grayscale file, that should do it. The command should be in the channels palette

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