From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Layer masking tips and tricks - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Layer masking tips and tricks
In this exercise, I'm going to share some tips and tricks for working with layers inside of Photoshop. I've saved my changes as Vibrant skintones.psd found inside the 09_layer_masks folder. Notice that my Adjustment layer is selected here at the top of the Layers panel. Now I was telling you that you can view the layer mask by itself, independently of the image by pressing the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac and clicking on that layer Mask thumbnail there inside the Layers panel, and now we'll see the revealed portions of the layer in white, the concealed portions in black and the levels of translucency in -between in shades of gray. If you want to return to the full- color Composite view then you can either Alt+Click or Option+Click on that layer Mask thumbnail again, or you can just go ahead and click on one of the layer thumbnails. For example, in this case, I could click on that Vibrance icon right there and that'll switch me back to the RGB view. Notice, it also deactivates…
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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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