What is Soft Mask in Photoshop?

Channel masking or soft mask is a technique that is used in Photoshop as raster masking. Soft mask requires masking techniques with RGB and CMYK and many more custom channels. To accomplish clipping path, channel masking is the best way as it is perfect to create sophisticated images. Soft mask is a quick method to select an object with proper color contrast in the surrounding pixels.

Channel masking

Channel masking is the right and powerful way to knock out any background of the image having fuzzy edges like hair, fur or thread strands. Such edges are hard to remove with other tools like magic wand tool, quick selection or lasso tool. Even the pen tool has not that much capability to remove the background effectively by creating smooth and fine edges. Thus using alpha or soft mask, you can remove the background of an image nicely.

Soft mask or alpha masking or channel masking is the most effective feature of Photoshop that is in use widely by most of the photo editing companies.I hope you understand the topic well.

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