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Masking a layer effect - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Masking a layer effect
I have saved my progress as Complete bulb outline.psd found inside the 27_pen_tool folder, and we have indeed completed the path outline around the light bulb. Now in this exercise, we are going to take this masked object, we are going to assign a layer effect, specifically an outer glow, so a very simple effect, and then we are going to mask the effect so it better matches the scene. Now the way you mask a layer effect is you separate it from its layer and then you apply a manual adjustment. All right so you may recall that we had reduced the density of this mask so we could see through the mask to the other pixels inside the layer. We now need to reset that density value so I am going to go back to my Masks panel with the bulb layer selected and I am going to change the Density value but it's dimmed. In fact, the Mask panel is telling me No mask selected. Well sure enough the vector mask is not selected, so I don't have it active and the Mask panel when the vector mask is not active…
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Connecting the dots1m 40s
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The Pen tool and the Paths panel6m 31s
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Drawing a straight-sided outline6m 25s
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Editing a path outline6m 36s
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Adding and editing smooth points5m 35s
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Creating vector masks with the shape tools4m 59s
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Building a complex outline from shapes4m 26s
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Subtracting and transforming shapes6m 45s
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Cloning, flipping, and combining shapes8m 58s
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Roughing in non-symmetrical paths7m 41s
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Finessing a complex outline9m 15s
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Masking a layer effect8m 26s
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Isolating an image element6m 8s
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Smooth points and control handles9m 3s
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Stretching curved segments7m 49s
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Using the Rubber Band option9m 33s
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Drawing smooth points with the Pen tool6m 59s
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Shading an isolated object3m 45s
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Drawing cusp points7m 13s
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Setting points in the pasteboard9m 57s
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Using the Convert Point tool6m 42s
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