selecting by saturation

[SHEPEIRO]

is there a way of doing this like channel selecting...tried doing it by messing with the channels but only succseeded in confussing my damp grey stuff
cant figure out how to do this easily in Photoshop...

...cant seam to find anything via google...not sure im looking in the right place.....would be extremely usefull...


also its friday YAY

[Stinger88]

Hmm... Strange one. But here's a quick way I might do that.

Select > Colour Range > manually select the saturated colour areas using the +picker tool and adjust fuziness.

Once you have the selection you can modify (in select menu) it with smooth, expand, etc.

Any good?

[Bad Spleen]

I have just found a way you could do it.

Take your image, set the layer to "saturation"

Place a layer below that is a pure RGB, for example pure red.

Now you can see the areas that are more saturated than the others. I think this is what you are after. You could collapse the layer, desaturate it and you would have a mask of the saturation... I think.

Adam

[SHEPEIRO]

stinger- yeah thats usually a pain in the complete ass to do well...and well the info is there so...

bad spleen...perfect...cheers

final method:
-make layer "saturation"
-add red layer underneath
-in channels select red with ctrl click on thumb
-create new layer add selection as mask, fill layer with white
- add black layer beneath
-level mask to taste

cheers bud tired brain needed help

[perna]

you can ctrl+shift+c "collapse copy" the channel view and just paste that, and get the red chan as a layer immediately (then something like auto contrast to quickly expand it to full range). Unless you were doing something else with the mask stuff, of course