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White reveals, black conceals

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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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