Masking with a darken mode

All right, now let's see a compositional application of a Darken Blend Mode.…We are going to take this last version of the model, Linear Burned against the…marble background and we're going to mask her, so that she doesn't have any of…that marble texture running through her face or skin tones, and it's an easy…mask to create, thanks to the fact that we have an underlying layer of…darkening to work with. All right!…I have saved this version of the image as Linear burn.psd, found inside the…04_darken folder, and I am going to go ahead and turn off that Levels…adjustment layer for now, we'll come back to it and then click on the model…layer in order to select it, and I'll press Ctrl+J or Command+J on the Mac in…order to jump it to a new layer.…

And I'll go ahead and return this layer to the Normal Blend Mode by pressing…Shift+Alt+N or Shift+Option+N on the Mac.…Now we need to mask away the background, it's a flat light background.…So it's pretty easy to do, by going up to the Select menu and choosing the Color…