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5. Paint on the mask with a hard 1, 3, or 5 pixel brush set to reveal areas of the eagle that are no longer showing. Paint on the mask using black to clean up are areas that are showing the background to hide these areas.
4 Mask Photoshop Brushes. If you want to use them for commercial purpose you have to first ask author for permission.
So, to recap. The layer mask allows you to hide parts of your image without actually making adjustments to the image itself, thus leaving your image intact at all times. Which will not only save you time and headache, but benefit you in the long run as well.
Okay I'm sort of confused on the part where it says �next make all the channels visible. Go to the layer menu and click on the image layer� what do you mean by click on the image layer?
Submitted by Martin on 2006-04-05 18:13:05. Since then read 70736 times. Scored 2.67 points out of maximum 5 by 282 votes.
When you enter the quick mask mode you get a rubylith. This shows that areas that are de-selected in Red and the areas that are selected as untouched or clear.
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If you would like to follow along with this tutorial using my mask image then CLICK HERE to download it. Be patient as it opens (it's 205KB) in another window. Once it is open, right-click on the image and select "Save Image As..." to save it to your computer.
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to use a photo as a layer mask, essentially using the image to mask itself, something that Photoshop doesn't normally allow us to do.
Now the selection work!!! Zoom your image and start the selection point by point, using the pen tool as a paths - Do not forget to make the curves as explained before...
With the pen tool, outline your goat, try and follow the animal’s edges, don’t worry about leaving hair out. Same with the moustache, we’ll recreate it later.
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There are plenty of techniques for doing masking, some uses channels, color range, pen tool and lot of times for those who has a tablet they just paint it with their brush tool.
What?s one of the very last things we do to an image before sending it to print or to the web? We sharpen it. What tool do we use? The Unsharp Mask filter, of course. Anybody know why? I didn?t, until I did a little investigating in the world of sharpening. This filter is named for the old-fashioned darkroom where photographers would, well, mask unsharpness by, "contact printing a film positive (the "mask") from a negative. The developed positive was then put in contact with the negative and positioned slightly out of register, which resulted in an interference pattern (similar to moire), emphasizing edge detail, adding apparent sharpness to the image. The positive/negative pair was then placed in the enlarger or contact printer to produce the final print." Thanks to NAPP member, Allen E. Shifrin for this insightful explanation.
Make a clean background by copy-pasting. Try not to repeat the same pattern too often. Blend with a soft brush on low opacity.
I hope this helps, and opens up a new world of possibilities for those who have difficulty with masks in Photoshop, and other image editing software that has layer masking capabilities.
2. Use the paint bucket to fill the mask and draw a selection with the Marquee tool. Press delete and deselect. These are the basic steps, and you can now use almost any filter to apply cool edge effects.
Right-click your original photo layer and select Blending Options. Check and click on the Drop Shadow menu item, then adjust the settings to this:
In this way, the selected area can be refined just to include the object wanted. Quick Mask Mode can also be used to touch up the edges around the selected object.
Title: how to use vector mask and alter a photograph In this computer cs2 dummy photo shop tech tutorial learn how to give unique photo effect using vector mask.Use photoshop techniques - photo shop vector mask effects
In this Photoshop photo editing tutorial, we're going to learn how to boost the contrast and color of an image using a little-known trick to select pixels based on their luminosity (lightness) values, which is officially known as "activating the luminosity mask". Once we have our selection, we're going to combine it with a layer blend mode to add more life to the image and give it a bit more visual snap.
In a recent campaign to promote the creative retouching services that Ardis offers to photographers and art directors in South Florida, we showed how we can take a bland stock photo and create striking surrealistic compositions. You can see the pictures in our campaign (and their creation process) in our new retouching page, but in this tutorial we decided to let you into one more secret and show you step by step how we created the beautiful porcelain mask that you can see in the composition below.
[1]- First take a new image as you like now go to 'Edit in Quick mask mode' or press the "Q" on your keyboard
Of course, the smaller price tag does come with its own cost. Many of the more professional-level features of Photoshop are not included in Photoshop Elements, and unfortunately, the layer mask feature is one of them. The official answer from Adobe on "how do I add a layer mask in Elements?" is "You can't. Layer masks are not included as part of Photoshop Elements". But with you and me being as clever as we are, we're not going to let a little old "official answer" stop us!
Here's the secret to this technique. The image is copied to the layer mask so that the layer is only visible on light areas. To do this, click on the thumbnail of the layer mask to select and use the Apply Image tool (Image> Apply Image) with the default settings: Layer: Merged Channel: RGB Invert: Unchecked Blending: Multiply Opacity: 100%
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In this Tips & Tricks tutorial I'm going to show you a neat little trick involving layer styles and the way they relate to layer masks.
Remember that when using layer masks, if you want to keep hiding pixels you must make sure that the layer mask icon itself is highlighted in the layer. Otherwise you'll think you're hiding pixels and instead you're on the layer itself instead of the layer MASK. It will take plenty of experience to get used to this. In the Basic Photoshop training I go through dozens of tutorials in which I am practically using the layer mask because I feel it is one of the most important things to master as Photoshop designer. Choose a darker spot with your eyedropper tool.
A layer mask can be added to a photo in Adobe Photoshop CS3 to hide any part of the image. This is a fast way to add a mask to your photo but I recommend using a vector mask for a more precise mask addition. Find out how you can create a layer mask in Photoshop CS3 by watching this latest video.
12. Select the foreground color as white and background color as Blue hex #333399. Select your gradient tool set to a radial gradient. Draw a gradient from the center of the two masks to the lower corner.
In this Photoshop tutorial I will show you how to take an illustration created using Vector Masks in Photoshop, turn it into an Illustrator file with all the associated paths, layers and colors and from there turn it into a true .EPS file.
When I first started with photoshop I really did not ever find the need to use selection masks. Now I feel that they save a lot of time and are very useful.
[...] Here is a great tutorial on using layer masks. As you can see, layer masks are super useful. Best of all, they allow you to go back later and change what you've done. A popular trick among some retouchers is to use the Edit-> Fade tool to reduce the strength of a tool they're using. After you make a brush stroke, let's say, you can use the fade command to reduce that brush stroke's visibility by a percentage of your choosing. That's pretty handy, but you can't come back later and change your mind. You can get the same thing from a layer mask by painting in black at a lowered opacity. And, since layer masks stick around, you, or a client, can come back and change your mind later. [...]
My second Photoshop CS3 tutorial. In this video, I continue working with masks to do a standard beauty retouch. I keep it simple and only correct some blemishes and wrinkles and smooth the skin. We'll do color correction and a bit of facial reconstruction (with the liquefy tool) in a later tutorial.
So � I have liberated you from reliance on automatic tools. Please still use Lighting Effects and Layer Effects when it's appropriate! But please fool around with hand made masks. It's really pretty simple and fast to do once you grasp it, and there are times when it's the perfect compliment to some other cool technique that just needs a little �pop� of depth! Here's an example. I was fooling around with the displace filter and got a very cool displacement effect, but it didn't come off the page. Highlight and Shadow masks, just as we have done here, brought it to life. Have fun exploring depth!
This is the second Adobe Photoshop CS3 (but same for any version) tutorial from LearnHawk, hopefully you will be able to get to grips with the layer mask using this tutorial, I also show you some other tools, such as the warp tool.
So what does that mean in our example? It means that the black ellipse is hiding the the corresponding pixels in the yellow layer (Layer 1). What we see in our document window is always the result of looking down on the layers in the layers palette, starting at the top layer and in most cases ending with a background layer. All these are stacked on top of each other like playing-cards. Our yellow 'card' has a hole in it and that's why it's the only area where we can see the layer underneath, in our case the green layer. The result is a yellow square with in the middle a green ellipse. So remember; black hides pixels (or hides the result of an adjustment layer)
Layer Masks have a lot of power in PhotoShop. They are used to block out (or mask) certain parts of layers so that other layers can be shown in only certain areas of the document. What's great about layer masks is that they are not destructive - they can be undone and changed, as opposed to erasing parts of your image.
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at one of the most essential features in all of Photoshop - layer masks. We'll cover exactly what layer masks are, how they work, and why you want to use them. If you've been staying away from using layer masks with your Photoshop work because you thought they were somehow beyond your skill level, well, if you know the difference between black and white and can paint with Photoshop's Brush Tool, you already have all the skills you need!
Get all your Photoshop upgrade options and the best prices at the Adobe Store. Find the latest Photoshop CS3 tutorials on our Photoshop CS3 Tutorials Page. Photoshop Masking & Montage Tutorial ? Using Masks To Improve Landscape Images Adapted from "Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills" by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews Tutorial Work Files You can download the images needed to work along with this tutorial. Visit Mark Galer's site (link opens in a new window) for instructions on how to access them. The images are high resolution and will make it easier to reproduce the exact effects from this tutorial. Original Venice image by Craig Shell (sky by Mark Galer) Drama in Venice Venetian classical painters had a passion for moody and tempestuous skies (just Google the Tempest by Giorgione to see one such example). I now find it hard to look at an image of Venice with a featureless sky. The sky is an essential ingredient of any memorable landscape image. Unfortunately it is not something the photographer can control unless we have limitless time and patience. The commercial photographer is often required to deliver the goods on a day that suits the client rather than the photographer and weather forecast. In these instances it is worth building a personal stock library of impressive skies that can be utilized to turn ordinary images with bland skies into impressive ones. The digital compact set to a low ISO is ideal for capturing these fleeting moments. The most useful skies to collect are the ones that include detail close to the horizon line, i.e. captured without interference from busy urban skylines, such as can be found at the beach or in the desert. A stock library of skies is included on the DVD of the new Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills book (published by Focal Press) to help you start, or add to, your own collection. In this project we explore how a sky can be adapted to fit the landscape so the montage is not immediately obvious. Step 1 Select the Magic Wand Tool from the Tools palette and set the tolerance to 20 in the Options bar. Select the Add to Selection icon in the Options bar or hold down the Shift key as you click multiple times to select all of the sky. Zoom in to 100% or 'Actual Pixels' and select Quick Mask mode from the Tools palette. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to select the tops of the buildings that were not included in the mask because the Magic Wand may have become over zealous. Fill this selection with black (if Black is the foreground color...
Editing And Modifying Selection Masks From the ExtremeTech book, Hacking Photoshop CS2 by Shangara Singh, published by John Wiley and Sons. (Reprinted with permission.) Very rarely is a new selection perfect. Invariably, you have to do some work on it before you can use it. Fortunately, after you have stored the selection in an alpha channel, you can modify it in a number of ways. You can use painting tools, transform commands, or filters to modify the alpha channel and then load it as a selection mask. Using Painting Tools and Filters Because selection masks are composed of grayscale images, you can use only black and white paint, or shades of the two, to modify a mask. When you activate an alpha channel containing a selection that you wish to modify, the foreground and background colors are automatically set to white and black, respectively. However, when you enter Quick Mask mode (Q), the foreground and background colors are set to black and white, respectively. Painting with black in the alpha channel expands the masked areas and contracts the selected areas; painting with white has the opposite effect: masked areas contract and selected areas expand. If you paint with a shade of gray, areas become partially masked or partially selected, depending on the intensity of the gray. You can paint with a shade of gray by varying the opacity for the Brush tool from the options bar, or by using the numeric keyboard: Tap 1 to 10 to alter in 10% increments, for example; tap 2 to change the opacity to 20%; or tap a figure between 1 and 100. There is one other way to paint with shades of gray without having to change the foreground color. If you have a pen and tablet, you can open the Brushes palette and enable Pen Pressure in the options for Other Dynamics. Now when you paint, you can control the shades by simply applying more or less pressure. When it comes to modifying active selections, the Quick Mask mode is particularly good for running filters on the selection. When the mode has been invoked, you can use filters to contract, expand, soften, harden, or transform selection edges. For example, you can use the blur filters to soften edges (as noted previously), the Maximum and Minimum (Filter > Other) to expand and contract selected areas, respectively, and the distort or artistic filters to create fanciful selections. Try the various filters to see which ones work and which don't (Figure 9-9). Not all filters can be applied in Quick Mask mode.
Creating And Saving Selection Masks From the ExtremeTech book, Hacking Photoshop CS2 by Shangara Singh, published by John Wiley and Sons. (Reprinted with permission.) Selections can be created in a number of ways. They can be created from the ground up using the selection marquee or lasso tools, or with painting tools by entering Quick Mask mode, or they can be based on the luminosity or the color data in the image. They can also be created from existing paths and path components. In ImageReady, you can create selections from slices. To prevent an oval- or irregular-shaped selection from viewing and printing with a stair-stepping effect, you can create selections with feathering or anti-aliasing so that they lack hard edges, and select content gradually inward and outward from the selection boundary. The feathering can be specified before the selection is created or after the event; however, the anti-aliasing has to be specified before an oval or irregular selection is created. Selections can be contiguous or non-contiguous. You can add to or subtract from existing selections and draw freehand or in straight lines and even horizontal or vertical lines. After a selection is created, you can hide it temporarily so that you can see the image that you are working on without being distracted by the animated selection outlines. Selections are temporary by default but can be stored as grayscale images in alpha channels, loaded from the alpha channel at any time, or exported to another open document. Note: Remember, not all file formats support alpha channels; the most popular file formats, PSD, PDF, TIFF, BMP, Targa, and Pixar do, but another very popular format, JPEG, does not. Creating Circles and Squares Using Marquee Tools You can create rectangular and elliptical selections easily in Photoshop by using the Rectangular Marquee or the Elliptical Marquee tools (M), respectively. However, odd as the omission might seem, Photoshop does not include dedicated selection tools for creating round, square, or round-cornered selections. The absence of such tools often throws off novice users. Therefore, the following hack is just for you if you happen to belong to such a group. You have two ways of making a round or square selection. You can use the selection tools or the shape tools. Using the selection tools, take the following steps:
Learn how to correct exposure without clipping highlights or shadows. This Photoshop technique uses layer masks to prevent highlights and shadows from being blown out.
Using Masks for Seamless Backgrounds Ever wonder where all those seamless backgrounds come from? How does the creator get them to blend so...well, seamlessly? If you've tried to create your own, I'm sure you've perused at least a dozen tutorials on the subject. Some may have garnered excellent results, and some not so much. I'm not going to grade the quality of anyone else's tutorials here. I know from personal experience that a single error to a technique or misplaced step will award the writer a small avalanche of email. Been there, but I'm not complaining. You folks keep me sharp, and I like it that way! This week I'm going to give a personal twist to the ol' seamless background creation niche. I've warmed up the digital cam (my trusty Mavica... forgive me Jim Patterson, but I love that camera) and snapped a few shots. Let's see if we can't create something interesting.
Using Quick Masks Quick masks are a handy little Photoshop- feature that many people don?t even know about. If you?ve never heard of quick masks, this article is going to show you how to use the basic features of the feature. When you want to use a mask in a more traditional way, use a quick mask. It works very similarly to the way a mask in the real world works. Say you were painting a room and you didn?t want to get paint on the trim. You would use tape right ? masking tape? Quick masks act very much the same way. Rather than create a mask layer, that works to show or not show a layer below it using an alpha channel, quick mask is much more intuitive to understand. Let?s show an example. I am going to start with this basic shape that Photoshop 7 ships with. I have this shape on its own layer. To enter the quick mask mode, simply hit the letter Q on your keyboard. You won?t see anything happen, but your history palette will show that you have entered quick mask mode. Now using the default color swatches (black and white), select your gradient tool and swipe a gradient from the upper left hand corner to the lower right. Notice how the pink gradient appears after you do this. This is the mask. Think of it as masking tape with holes in it. The gradient acts as a way to go from small holes to large holes. So if you were painting, more paint would go through the large holes than the small holes and you would get a gradient effect with your paint. Now to exit quick mask mode, hit the Q key again. Photoshop will give you a selection based on your quick mask. I am going to use my mask to make a split-screen effect with my flower. I simply go Image -> Adjustments ->Hue and Saturation. Make the necessary changes, and you can see the result. Now you can deselect the image area and you are done. It?s as easy as that. The best part about this is that you don?t have to take all that masking tape off after you get done! Now I encourage you to experiment with this and see what you can do with it. Try different filters while you are in quick mask mode and you will get interesting effects. Talk to you soon.
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In this Photoshop tutorial I'll show you how to achieve a neat little text effect with an image overlay while learning the basics of using displacement masks.
We have duplicated the background layer (click Layer/Duplicate Layer) and set the general effect mode for both layers to Multiply. This way, the raspberry got darker and more saturated colors. Of course, you can select any effect you like in this step, according to your photo and concept. This first step is actually unimportant from the aspect of layer masking. The point is to have at least two layers that differ in, say, their general effect.
I'll start off with Quick Mask mode. It's a little more basic and a little easier to use. To get to Quick Mask mode, press [Q]. Did you press it? Did you see what happened? It's pretty subtle what happens after you press Q. In your Tool palette, you see your colors go to the default (Black/White) and the little icon below the colors switches. You'll also see in the title bar of your image it says �Quick Mask.� Good indication that you're in Quick Mask mode.
Step 1: Create a new document 120x280 and make any background you want.
Drag the anomaly into the open document that you want to use as the background.
Now, find a photograph of a person that you think should work well with your other chosen photograph. When designing, you?ll learn to pre-visualize and ?feel? a design or idea just by looking at independent elements (photographs, layers)...if you?re not there yet, it will come with time and training.
Also add a series of adjustment layers on top of it will help to bring out extra light and contrast: (Go to Layer > Adjustment Layer)
For an interesting variation change the layer blending mode to multiply. This makes the top image appear as if it is a reflection in the glass on the clock.
1. Open Photoshop. Open Image to work with "Hide All" command. Double click and unlock the Background layer. Check out the detail procedure here.
With the geese layer selected, add a mask using the button below.
Step 2 Double click �Layer 1� to bring out the blending option, and focus your attention on the �Blend If:� option. You will see a gradient bar with values 0 ~ 255 (with 0 being the darkest point and 255 being the brightest point) and sliders on each end. Selecting the �Blend If: Gray� will allow Photoshop to use Grayscale of the image as a base for blending.
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In another tutorial we discussed another way to work with color masks in Photoshop. Here is another way, using the quick mask tool, that you may enjoy using more than any other method.
Download those two pictures:The sailing boat and tropical sea.
Step 2:In the Layers palette, click on the new fill or adjustment layer button and a menu will appear. In the menu, select Curves. Now a Curves window will appear with what looks like a graph. Adjusting the exposure is easy with the curves. Start by clicking on the middle of the line to create a point. To brighten the image, click and drag that point towards the top left corner create an arch. To darken the image, click and drag the point towards the bottom right corner.