From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Hiding layer effects with a mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Hiding layer effects with a mask
In this exercise, we are going to reinstate that Gradient and the Hard Light blend mode and the layer effects, and then I'll show you how to cut through the layer effects using a layer mask. I've saved my changes as Big-layer nameplate.psd and I call it big layer because that's how Adobe refers to layers that are bigger than the canvas. All right! Let's go ahead and rerun through a few steps here. I'll grab the Gradient tool, which you can also get by pressing the G key. Unless you've done something else with this tool recently you should see that same Wikked grad gradient selected up here in the Options bar. Assuming it is then go ahead and drag for left side of the image to the right side and that'll go ahead and fill in the entire layer. So obviously, I forgot a step there. I'll press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac. I need to lock down the transparency and I'll do that by clicking on that little checkerboard grid to the right of the word Lock there inside the Layers panel, and then…
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Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay6m 13s
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Changing a mask's overlay color5m 34s
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Painting inside a mask6m 3s
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Cleaning up and confirming5m 18s
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Combining masks5m 10s
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Painting behind and inside a layer5m 27s
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Blending image elements6m 1s
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What to do when layers go wrong6m 3s
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Hiding layer effects with a mask4m 22s
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Introducing clipping masks5m 29s
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Unclipping and masking a shadow3m 50s
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The mask meets the composition1m 8s
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