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J. HarderAccurate Layer Selections Using Photoshop’s Selection Toolshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7493-4_11

11. Channel Selections from Paths

Jennifer Harder1  
(1)
Delta, BC, Canada
 

This chapter shows you how to save a selection from the Paths panel in the Channels panel so that it can be reused and saved as a selection.

The last chapter looked at paths—how they can be saved in a document and how they can be made into selections. However, there may be other situations where you want to save a selection that you created, but it did not start off as a path. How that is done and where these selections are saved are explored next.

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