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Finessing masks, accepting imperfections

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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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