Yep, you heard me.

There is a wonderful flexibility in the CMYK color space that one just does not experience while working in RGB. It's like having that single extra channel frees up our color adjustment layers to work as the programmers intended. It makes RGB feel like a theater of blunt instruments.

Clipping. Cut Outs. Knock Out. Outlining. Pathing. It’s called a lot of different things but if you’ve spent any time working in Commercial Retouching - at any level - you know that it’s pretty much job one. That’s because Clipping is the absolute foundation of any real high res retouching job.