From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
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Bringing back Refine Mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Bringing back Refine Mask
- [Narrator] In this movie, I'll show you how to bring back the precursor to the select and mask workspace, which is refined matte, better known as refine mask which a lot of people prefer. And along the way, we'll take this plain old text and we'll turn it into this eye catching topiary type. And so, I'll press shift tab to bring back my right side panels. And for this trick to work, we need to express the text as a layer mask. And you can do that by first converting the letters to selection outlines by pressing the control key or the command key on a Mac, and clicking on the layers thumbnail. So you want to control or command click on that letter T. All right, that's all we needed the text for, so I'll go ahead and hide that layer and then I'll turn on this photographic hedge layer, and I'll select it as well. And then you want to drop down to the add layer mask icon at the bottom of the panel and click on it in order to convert the selection outline to a mask. Alright, now we want…
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Compositing like a pro2m 2s
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Static selection vs. dynamic layer mask6m 35s
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Perfecting mask edges with the Smudge tool4m 46s
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White reveals, black conceals6m 43s
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Real-world layer masking7m 21s
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Combining multiple passes of Color Range6m 38s
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Painting away gaps in a layer mask11m 55s
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Making your mask the best it can be11m 32s
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Feather and Density = even better hair8m 12s
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Introducing the Select and Mask command5m 19s
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The Global Refinements settings4m 18s
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Edge Detection and Smart Radius6m 54s
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Refine Edge Brush and Decontaminated Colors5m
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Turning day into night with Camera Raw2m 46s
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Blending hair into a nighttime sky8m 32s
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Bringing back Refine Mask5m 24s
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