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Drafting a mask with Black & White

Drafting a mask with Black & White - Photoshop Tutorial

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Drafting a mask with Black & White

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- [Instructor] All right, so it stands to reason that if converting to gray-scale provides you with yet another glimpse into your image, that might prove helpful when masking, then creating your own custom gray-scale image, using a black and white adjustment layer might prove more helpful, still. And I think, by the end of this movie, you'll be fairly blown away by the results. Now I've gone ahead and saved out those last two versions of the image. So we have Grayscale bird.psd, and single channel grayscale.jpg. Now the reason I went with the Native PSD format for the gray-scale image, is because I need to retain those layers, as well as that mask. So the great thing about Native PSD is that it allows you to save just about everything you can do inside Photoshop. However, with the single channel image, there are no masks and I have no layers, just this single background image and nothing more, so I might as well invoke that Lossy compression associated with the jpeg format because…

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