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Establishing a knockout layer

Establishing a knockout layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Establishing a knockout layer

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In this exercise we are going to come up with a better even more flexible approach, this time using a knockout layer. I've saved my progress as Tepid highlights.psd found inside that 09_layer_masks folder and the first thing I want you to do is Shift+Click on the mask that's associated with that group to turn it off. Then go ahead and click on the screen layer to make it active, because we're to make a new layer and we are going to do so by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N, Command+Shift+N on the Mac and I'll call this new layer knockout and click OK. Notice because I had screen selected I automatically create this new layer inside of the group and that's very important. You generally need a group to successfully pull off a knockout inside Photoshop. Now we need the Gradient tool once again because we are going to draw a gradient. We are going to draw that same gradient we drew before. However, we are going to change the style slightly from foreground or background to instead we need foreground…

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