From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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White reveals, black conceals - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
White reveals, black conceals
Before I somewhat start this exercise I should acknowledge the fact that we have seen an awful lot of layer mask so far, just about every composition we've created in the previous chapters involved at least one layer mask on one layer. However, what I'd like to do inside this exercise is familiarize you with the basic metaphor associated with the layer mask. So you understand exactly what's going on. And I'll do so in the context of this photograph. It comes to us from the Fotolia image library about what you can learn more at fotolia.com/deke. It's a great composition I think the photographer did a fine job of capturing this couple. I think something may have gone wrong and post however, because we've got some problems. First of all, you can see that we have an awful lot of color associated with the shadow details inside these T-shirts, those areas ought to be neutral. Meanwhile, we don't have nearly enough saturation associated with the skin tones and then finally notice this…
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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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