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Changing a mask's overlay color

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Changing a mask's overlay color

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In this exercise I'm going to show you how to change the color of the mask overlay that you see when you're viewing the mask and the image at the same time. I've saved my progress as First tentative edit.psd. I have the boot channel selected. We are viewing the RGB image at the same time. Now as I was telling you, this red overlay is based on the old Rubyliths that many of us used in the precomputer days. The color works well for some images, not so well for others. In our case it's hard to tell what's going on, because the shade of red assigned to the mask, very nearly matches the red of the boot. So here is how you go about changing the color. You go to the Channels panel and you double-click anywhere on the alpha channel, and then you'll see that you have this color swatch. Go ahead and click on it to bring up the Color Picker dialog box. And let's dial in a complementary color, and, by the way, when you're modifying the Hue value, you can find the color complement of any other…

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