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Combining pixel and vector masks

Combining pixel and vector masks - Photoshop Tutorial

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Combining pixel and vector masks

I've saved my progress as Big vector oval.psd found inside the 09_layer_mask folder. So far we've created this layer of desaturation that's masked by this big vector oval. However, I need to somehow paint away the effect inside the man's face and along the woman's neck as well, which means I need to add a pixel-based layer mask and you can combine both pixel-based layer masks and vector-based shape masks inside a single layer and here's how it works. I am going to go ahead and choose the Color Range command which you might feel like by now is a little bit dangerous, but in fact because we do not have a pixel-based layer mask selected it's going to generate a standard selection outline. So I'll go ahead and choose the command and I'm going to click on that formerly blue portion of the man's collar, and then I'll Shift+Drag around into the other regions of t-shirt, including that over the woman shoulder. Now that ends up selecting too much of the image, because the Fuzziness value is…

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