From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
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Masking a subject set against black or white - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Masking a subject set against black or white
- [Instructor] In this movie, we take a look at the recipes for masking a person or an animal, still works, set against the black background versus that same person set against a white background. And while these aren't hard and fast recipes, you can vary them if you want to, they do work quiet nicely. So let's start again as subject setting against the black or in this case a very dark background which is a less common scenario but you do run into it every once in a while. It just happens to be the simpler of the two. And so the recipe is to set source one to the red channel. Also set source two to that same channel and set the blend mode to screen. And so to see what this looks like, I'll go up to the image menu and choose calculations. Where once again, if you loaded D keys, you've got that shortcut of control shift alt L or command shift option L on a Mac. Now, we don't want that text to enter into the picture. So if you're working along with me, change the layer for both source 1…
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Using the image to select itself2m 15s
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A quick refresher on layer masking5m 43s
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Initiating a mask as an alpha channel8m 7s
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Deploying an alpha channel as a layer mask6m 33s
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Introducing the Calculations command6m 44s
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Masking a subject set against black or white7m 11s
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Saving alpha channels to the TIFF format3m 57s
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Painting contrast with the Overlay mode10m 52s
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Eliminating halos with the Minimum filter9m 5s
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Restoring details with the History brush6m 41s
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Masking a subject against a green screen6m 9s
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Enhancing and inverting a mask with Levels6m 48s
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Painting away color fringing8m 5s
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Immersing an image in its new environment6m
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Masking wispy, voluminous, untamed hair7m 44s
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Preserving very fine hair details9m 25s
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Compositing hair to match a new background6m 57s
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