From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Establishing a knockout layer - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Establishing a knockout layer
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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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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