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Creating the best possible layer mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Creating the best possible layer mask
In this exercise, we're going to manually blend together the aligned images of my sons, Max and Sam. I've gone ahead and saved a more streamlined version of that composition as Two aligned layers.psd. Now this mask job here seems to present a really big problem. After all, if I were to take the Sam layer, which is currently on top, and set it to 50%, let's say, by pressing the 5 key, that is 50% Opacity. You'll see that the ribs along the slide do not match up at all. So I believe, if I turn this layer off and then on for a moment, I can see that this area here is the rib for the foreground slide, and this area right there is the rib for the background slide. And then we've got Max's feet, which aren't aligned with each other and Sam's hand. And this edge of the slide is not in alignment, and then down here at the bottom, we have an alignment problem as well. This is the rib of the forward slide, and this is the rib of the backward slide. Meanwhile, everything about the background…
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Artificial intelligence that works1m 22s
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The Auto-Align Layers command7m 25s
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The Auto-Blend Layers command3m 54s
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Masking auto-aligned layers4m 50s
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The Geometric Distortion setting6m 44s
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The Seamless Tones and Colors checkbox4m 8s
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Creating the best possible layer mask9m 18s
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Auto-blending depths of field5m 54s
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Finessing masks, accepting imperfections6m 29s
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Shooting and downsampling panorama images5m 54s
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Introducing the Photomerge command6m 40s
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Evaluating the Layout settings6m 47s
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Loading, aligning, and blending with Photomerge5m 36s
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Tracing and extracting seams7m 18s
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Adding a masked element into a panorama5m 55s
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Simplifying and correcting a panorama5m 58s
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Smart Filters and nondestructive cropping6m 43s
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