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Masking glass

Masking glass - Photoshop Tutorial

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Masking glass

Alright, now that we've seen just about everything there is to know about layer masks and Vector masks and the Masks panel, let's take a look at some more advanced compositing options. I'll be showing you how to mask an entire group of layers, I'll show you how to create a knockout layer that bores through the layers below it, and finally I'll toss in a clipping mask, and along the way I'll show you how to mask glass. So we're going to take these two images here, both of which once again held from the Fotolia Image Library, and we'll merge them together to create this final composition, and believe it or not it's actually not all that tough, although as you can see over here in the Layers panel it does require three variations on that glasses layer. We're going to perform some basic masking upfront. I'll switch back to the starter file which is called Sunset celebration.psd, found inside the 09_layer_masks folder. And ideally, we would find a single blend mode that would keep the…

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