From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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The Masks panel's bad options - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
The Masks panel's bad options
In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to these three buttons down here at the bottom of the Masks panel. Now I already showed you how Color Range behaves when you start with a blank layer mask, however, it behaves quite differently when the layer Mask is already filled in. Now I should warn you that this exercise is something of a cautionary tale; the summary of the exercise would be don't use these three buttons, because they don't really help you out that much and one of them can be dangerous. It can actually crash the program. But I'll go ahead and show them to you and you can decide. I've saved my changes as Bouncy midtones.psd, found inside the 09_layer_masks folder. If you want to work along with me, make sure the Masks panel is up on screen. Go ahead and click on the layer Mask thumbnail for the midtones adjustment layer. We'll start off with the Invert button, because it's the simplest. All it does is invert the layer mask. So anything that was previously revealed…
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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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