From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Painting with the Overlay mode - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Painting with the Overlay mode
In this exercise, we're going to take our mask so far, and we're going to selectively enhance its contrast using a combination of the Brush tool, along with a couple of different blend modes. I've saved my progress as Blue channel mask.tif. And the reason I used the TIFF format, by the way, is because we have an alpha channel, so JPEG is not going to work. We also have a flat image file. Notice all we've is the background here inside the Layers panel, which means that the TIFF format, combined with LZW compression, is going to produce a smaller, more efficient file than the native PSD format. I'm going to switch back to Channels. Notice that the alpha channel is selected. Now, as I say, we're going to be completing this mask by hand painting inside of it. So your best bet is to go ahead and duplicate the channel at this point. So I'm going to go ahead and drag it, and drop it onto the little Page icon at the bottom of the Channels panel. Because, after all, when you're working with…
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Choosing the ideal base channel5m 7s
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Converting a channel into a mask6m 34s
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Painting with the Overlay mode7m 27s
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Painting with the Soft Light mode5m 55s
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Mask, composite, refine, and blend4m 40s
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Creating a more aggressive mask7m 2s
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Blending differently masked layers7m
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Creating a hair-only mask6m
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Using history to regain a lost mask3m 42s
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Separating flesh tones from hair8m 28s
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Adjusting a model's color temperature4m 30s
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Introducing the Calculations command7m 22s
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Extracting a mask from a Smart Object6m 34s
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Integrating a bird into a new sky5m 40s
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Creating synthetic rays of light6m 4s
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Masking and compositing light7m 39s
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Introducing a brilliant light source7m 5s
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Using the image to select itself1m 37s
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