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Creating and feathering a vector mask

Creating and feathering a vector mask - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating and feathering a vector mask

In this exercise I'll show you a possible application for a Vector mask and we'll see how you can apply Vector masks to any layer inside of Photoshop, even an adjustment layer. I've saved my progress as Density and feather.psd, found inside the 09_layer_masks folder. Let's say I want to take the saturation out of the blue portions of these t-shirts so that they're nice and neutral. I'm going to start things off by switching back to the Adjustments panel and I'm going to click that left pointing arrowhead in the lower left corner of the panel in order to switch back to my adjustments list, and then I'll go to the Adjustments panel flyout menu and I'll choose Adjust Mask By Default to turn it back off so that we don't create a layer mask automatically for our next adjustment layer. Next, I'm going to Alt+Click or Option+ Click on this first icon in the second row. This represents Vibrance, by the way,. And because I had the Alt or Option key down; that brings up the New layer dialog…

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