Channels Power Tool is a very flexible utility tool. that speeds up your workflow and let you work with the channels of different color modes: RGB, Lab, Cmyk. Thanks to the channels preview you will able to seize and consequently load or apply the best mask from the available channels in order to protect or enhance some areas of the image. CPT works as a Photoshop Panel.

With his fast tools you will be able to evaluate the best way to edit channels for masking and blending and improve and enhance your image. It is a quick and easy way of compositing. The panel is provided of some personalized commands finalized to work with masks.

Our concept of utility.

Channels Power Tool is the second application we release. It's an utility, that usually means a software that helps and improve your workflow. For us it's much more. It's a tool that will help you make a significant step forward to your workflow quality.
After a careful look to the manual and the screencast, and few days of use you will realize that your ability in color correction will significantly benefit of it. And you will wonder of the important chance that masking may give you.

As others RBG software CPT comes with a top quality support, starting from the embedded pop up manual to end with tips, case histories and video tutorials. The tutorial will come soon.

Get an immediate preview of the available channels.

In a very fast way CPT  generates a low-res preview , of the Lab, RGB, Cmyk. channels of your working document, visualized in a separate file as a "Contact Sheet" . This will help you to understand the potentials stored in the channels.
With this simple first step ou will be able to evaluate, to work and to edit channels for masking and blending to achieve better channels and improve and enhance your image.
You don't need to save this  temporary file,  just close it without any warning or If you wish you may save it as a reference.

Use the available channels to create ultra-precise masks in an istant.

With the powerful "Apply Image" option  you will be able to load direct or inverted masks using a specific channel or a composite combination of them in three different color spaces. You may also modify the opacity and with our tutorial help easily modify the masks.

Protect and modify the critic areas of your image.

Channels Power Tool is a quick and easy way of compositing. The panel is provided of some personalized commands finalized to work with masks.

As for all the default Photoshop’s panels you can dock and undock it, move the panel into a group, make it floating freely, resize, collapse and expand it to icon view

Improve and speed-up your workflow

Gradually you will become familiar with the use of the channel as a mask and of the powerful Apply Image function. All your workflow will take benefit. Improved quality and increased productivity.

An innovative and easy to read user manual embedded in the panel.

Clicking on the "dock & more" button on the base of the panel. The step by step manual will help you to get the the best from the application, to version upgrade or to reach the interesting links.

Download the full manual here >

A perfect companion of ALCE. Some suggestions from Roberto Bigano.

Channels Power Tool is of course a perfect companion of ALCE.
Apply ALCE at the preferred value. Don't worry if the result is too harsh in some areas of the image. Create a blank mask in the ALCE layer, get a preview of the channels. Select the best channel to protect the areas where you want to reduce the ALCE effect.
Use the Apply Image function to load the channel. I usually load it inverted at 30% opacity. Then, using a curve directly on the mask I increase the density and the contrast of the mask itself. Thanks to the immediate Photoshop actual pixel preview I'm able to fine tune the final result.

Above: The mask obtained from the L channel of the lab before and after the curves correction.
Below. Left the original ALCE 70 applied without any mask. The result was very good, but too harsh in the face. In the middle the original. On the right the final result with the mask modified as shown above.
If you need to protect the darker areas you must load the channel not inverted.