From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Cleaning up and confirming - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Cleaning up and confirming
In this exercise, we're going to finish off the boot mask, and I'll also pass along this really great method for gauging the quality of your masks. I've saved my progress as The painted boot.psd. I have the boot channel selected; we're viewing the RGB image as well. I'm going to go ahead and scroll up to this ankle region of the boot, and you'll notice that the mask appears to be in fairly good shape actually by comparison of what we saw before. So the Magnetic Lasso tool does a better job of following these sort of wrinkly contours better than it did the smooth contours at the base of the foot. However, everything is not quite in as good as shape as it looks. If you press the tilde key or click on that eyeball in front of RGB in order to turn the RGB image off, then you'll see that we do have a fair amount of weird jagged transitions. So let's smooth them out by drawing a rectangular marquee using the Rectangular Marquee tool around this ankle region and then go up to the Filter…
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Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay6m 13s
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Changing a mask's overlay color5m 34s
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Painting inside a mask6m 3s
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Cleaning up and confirming5m 18s
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Combining masks5m 10s
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Painting behind and inside a layer5m 27s
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Blending image elements6m 1s
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What to do when layers go wrong6m 3s
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Hiding layer effects with a mask4m 22s
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Introducing clipping masks5m 29s
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Unclipping and masking a shadow3m 50s
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The mask meets the composition1m 8s
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