From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Creating and feathering a vector mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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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White reveals, black conceals6m 45s
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Layer masking tips and tricks5m 8s
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Generating a layer mask with Color Range5m 38s
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The Masks panel's bad options5m 18s
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The Masks panel's good options3m 50s
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Creating and feathering a vector mask3m 42s
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Combining pixel and vector masks3m 50s
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Working with path outlines7m 10s
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Combining paths into a single vector mask7m 52s
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Sharpening detail, reducing color noise4m 27s
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Recreating missing details8m 49s
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Masking glass5m 50s
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Refining a jagged Magic Wand mask5m 53s
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Masking multiple layers at one time5m 15s
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Establishing a knockout layer6m 6s
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Clipping and compositing tricks7m 37s
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The synthesis of masking and compositing1m 36s
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