Masking groups and effects in one operation

In this movie, I'll show you how to create a subgroup, which is pretty easy …stuff. And just FYI, you can create subgroups …inside subgroups up to ten groups deep. And then I'll show you how you can assign …a Layer Mask to an entire group at a time. …And the idea here is that, I think these eye bags over here on the left hand side, …should fade out a little bit. They're too crisp right now, in order to …create this final effect here. So, here's how that works. …I'll go ahead and switch over to my document in progress and then I'll twirl …open the Eyes group up here at the top of the stack.…

And I'll scroll down until I find Bags one through three. …So, I'll go ahead and click on Bag Three and Shift+click on Bag One to select that …entire range of Layers. Now, I could mask each one of them …independently, by the way, by clicking on a Layer and then clicking on the Add …Layer mask icon. Right now it's dimmed. …And that's because over the course of things here, I've managed to Lock these …