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Finessing masks, accepting imperfections - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Finessing masks, accepting imperfections
I've saved my six-layer composition as Auto-blended trophies.psd. In this exercise, we're going to finesse the contents of just two of the layer masks, just for the top two layers in the stack. And we're not going to get too lost inside of this composition, because we're really just trying to help out the Auto-Blend feature. We just want to finesse the areas of focus that need the most attention, but you have to bear in mind, even though we turned off that option for blending the tone and color across the various layers, this is still a very tenuous composition, because each and every layer mask is exactly aligned with the other ones. In other words, there is only one pixel at any given location that's opaque. The other pixels, going all the way down the stack, are transparent. And so what that means is we can paint in additional areas of opacity by painting in white inside of a layer mask, but we cannot paint black. If you do, you'll drill all the way down the stack and reveal a…
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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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