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I have a number of methods I use to do selections regularly, including the one you showed - using the channels.  What's interesting is that in one of the videos I watched of a selection being made, the person showing it specifically classified using channels for doing this as "what we used to have to do before we got the quick selection and refine edge tools", and that we now have "much better tools for doing this" etc...  It was because of the repeated exposure to people hyping this "new" method that I tried it to see if it was indeed magically quick, easy, and perfect... 

It's becoming clearer to me that even though Adobe may add new methods to Photoshop, it'll still be necessary to have a whole bag of ways to do things 'cause the magical new ones will sometimes not work and we'll have to go back to the "old school" methods...