From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

909 Masking in the natural colors of the lips

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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909 Masking in the natural colors of the lips

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take this rainbow layer right here, and we're going to mask it in order to reveal some of the colors from the shoulders, as well as the original colors of the lips. And that's going to involve a little bit of painting, but just one time, after that we'll repeat that first mask over and over again in a way that even if you've been using Photoshop for years, I think you'll find to be truly intriguing. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch back to the image so far, and I'll select my rainbow layer here inside the Layers panel. And then I'll drop down to this guy, Add Layer Mask, and click on it. All right, now what you want to do is tap the D key as in default colors, and then tap the X key in order to switch them so that you're painting with black. And now you want to select the Gradient tool, which you can get by pressing the G key. All right, now in my case, I'm seeing my rainbow Gradient that I applied in the previous movie. It's not going to do me any good. And so I want you to go up to that gradient icon on the far left side of the options bar, right click on it and choose Reset Tool to reset this specific tool as we're seeing here. All right, now I'll just go ahead and zoom out a little so I can see the bottom of the image, and I'll drag from the very bottom, almost all the way up to one of the chins here and I'll also press the Shift key in order to constrain the angle of my drag to exactly vertical. And that will reveal some of the natural coloring inside those shoulders. All right, now I'm going to zoom in on this model right here, the purple one, or more to the point, the farthest one over here on the right. And then I'll go ahead and select the Brush tool, which you can get by pressing the B key. And I'll right click, just to confirm my hardness value is 0%. I do, however, want a much smaller size, so I'll go ahead and reduce that guy a little bit, and then I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac to accept that change. And I'll go ahead and paint inside the lips, like so. And so it's pretty easy, all you have to do is paint with black in the layer mask in order to reveal the original color of the lips. If you feel like you go too far, like so, then just tap the X key in order to swap your foreground and background colors and just paint that excess away. And so you can be as careful as you like, but they're just lips, so it's hard to go wrong. All right, now I'm just going to confirm that I painted the lips in all the way by Alt or Option + Clicking on the layer mask thumbnail. And that way I can confirm that I've painted all the lips in. So wherever the mask is black, we're revealing the original colors, where we have white, we're seeing the rainbow. In any event, that looks fine. So I'll just Alt or Option + Click on it again, to restore the full color composite image. All right, now at this point, you could paint in the other lips as well, but that would be a big waste of time because you've already done that part. What you need to do instead is duplicate those lips by switching to the rectangular marquee tool, it's the easiest way to work, and you can get to that tool by pressing the M key, and then just draw a big marquee, like so, that at least encompasses those lips. And I just really want to make a point here. So I'm going to create a very big marquee, like so. And then you want to duplicate that selection by a specific numerical value. And the best way to do that is to pressed Control + Alt + T, that's Command + Option + T on the Mac. The fact that you pressed Control + T or Command + T, that invokes the free transform mode. The fact that you also pressed the Alt or Option key, goes ahead and duplicate the selection as well. All right, now notice these X and Y values on the left side of the Options bar. In my case, this delta right here is turned on. You want to turn it on as well. So just go ahead and click that triangle so that we're entering relative values. Now you may recall from last week that I duplicated each one of the faces by 270 pixels. And so we want to enter 270 once again, however, I want to change that value to negative, so that we're duplicating the lips in the opposite direction. And that should nail that next set of lips right there, at which point I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac a couple of times to invoke that change. Now you may notice an obvious problem, which is that I'm covering up the first set of lips. And so all you have to do to fix that problem is go to the Edit menu and choose the Fade command. And what that allows you to do is fade that floating selection. So I could change its opacity value if I wanted to mix those lips together, that's not what I want at all. So I'll go ahead and crank that value back up to 100%. Instead, I want to keep the black, which is the hole, and lose the white, which is covering up the other hole. And you do that by changing the blend mode to Multiply. At which point, you'll see that you're maintaining all the detail in both of those neighboring lips. At which point I'll click OK to accept that change. But it gets better, watch this. If I press Control + 0, or Command + 0 on the Mac, then I'll zoom out to take in the entire image. And now I can repeat that last transformation just by adding the Shift key. So you want to press Control + Shift + Alt + T, that's Command + Shift + Option + T on the Mac. And it does all of the work for you. It repeats that movement, and it keeps the blend mode set to Multiply. And so now all we need to do is do it again. So two more times, Control + Shift + Alt + T here on a PC, that's Command + Shift + Option + T on the Mac. And that, once again, does all of the work for us. And that's because Photoshop is remembering, if I go up to the Edit menu and choose the Fade command, it's remembering that the blend mode for this floating selection is set to Multiply. All right, I'm just going to go ahead and cancel out and press Control + D or Command + D on the Mac in order to deselect the artwork. And then I'll press Shift + F in order to switch to the full screen mode, and I'll zoom on in as well. And that is how you create a sequence of duplicate faces, each pair of which share a common eye, and then colorize those faces using a rainbow gradient while preserving the original color of the lips.

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