From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Combining pixel and vector masks - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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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White reveals, black conceals6m 45s
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Layer masking tips and tricks5m 8s
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Generating a layer mask with Color Range5m 38s
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The Masks panel's bad options5m 18s
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The Masks panel's good options3m 50s
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Creating and feathering a vector mask3m 42s
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Combining pixel and vector masks3m 50s
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Working with path outlines7m 10s
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Combining paths into a single vector mask7m 52s
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Sharpening detail, reducing color noise4m 27s
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Recreating missing details8m 49s
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Masking glass5m 50s
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Refining a jagged Magic Wand mask5m 53s
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Masking multiple layers at one time5m 15s
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Establishing a knockout layer6m 6s
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Clipping and compositing tricks7m 37s
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The synthesis of masking and compositing1m 36s
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