Channel Masking is a good technique used to isolate complex objects from the whole image ackground. Images masking using alpha channels is used the object edges are unsharp or not sufficiently defined. It is then a simple clipping path cannot provide adequate solution to knock out the background from the image. It is here channel masking or soft mask comes into play. Channel masks are delivered with transparent or white background or a separate layer in psd or tif format.Channel Masking or soft masking are applied on complex images where the pen tool used for clipping path cannot work out to isolate image from their background. Different image masking tools are used to extract object from their background. Channel masking namely alpha channels ate in fact the best solution for removing backgrounds from complex images if you are really looking forward to save your time and costs. Thus images having small leaves, hair or fur can be easily removed from their background using channel or soft masking techniques.