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Introducing masks

Introducing masks - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing masks

In this chapter we're going to focus in on one of the most powerful features in Photoshop, that is masking. And in order to get good at masking, it's helpful to have a strong working understanding of selections. Therefore if you aren't very comfortable with selections, I recommend that you go back to the chapter before this one and learn a little bit about selections and then revisit this chapter. Alright, well one of the reasons why its important to understand selections is because masks and selections, well they are in a way similar. When we make a selection of our photographs, lets say this picture that I captured here, we can select and modify or adjust a certain area in our image. Yet after we've applied the adjustment, we can never go back. We can never change the selection, yet with masks we can. With a mask we can make a selection and then we can constantly and continually adjust or modify it. And so here in this movie I simply want to introduce you to the concept of masking…

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