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Masking multiple layers at one time - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Masking multiple layers at one time
In this exercise, we're going to get rid of that gas at the top of the glasses, and we're going to do so by combining the light glass layers into a group and then assigning a layer mask to that group. I've saved my progress as Gassy glasses.psd found inside the 09_layer_masks folder. If I were to turn off both the screen and soft light layers, you can see that the gas goes entirely away, because the part of the image that's responsible for that gassy effect is actually the white that's showing through from the background and the white is dropping out entirely because we've assigned the Multiply mode to this layer. If I turn on the screen layer, why then the gas comes back with a vengeance, that's no good. So I'll go ahead and turn it off. If I turn on the soft light layer, it's not nearly as bad, but I don't want that strange brightness at the top of the glass, no matter what. These glasses need to look transparent so that we're seeing through to the sunset background. So we need to…
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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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