From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals

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Painting behind and inside a layer

Painting behind and inside a layer - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals

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Painting behind and inside a layer

In this exercise, we transition from the masking half of the chapter to the compositing half. I'll show you how to paint a gradient into this nameplate layer and we'll see how Photoshop permits you to paint exactly inside the lines. I've saved my progress as Nameplate in black.psd and I want you to see a couple of opposing painting options that are available to you as you work with layers inside Photoshop. So go ahead and switch over to the Brush tool and I'm going to increase the size of my brush quite a bit actually. I'm going to take it up to about 50 pixels let's say, and then I'll press X key to switch my foreground color to white and I'll just go ahead and paint inside of the active layer which is the nameplate. And notice, not surprisingly, Photoshop just goes ahead and paints a bunch of white into the layer. So what I've effectively done is scribbled over the layer and you can confirm that by Ctrl+Clicking or Command+ Clicking on the thumbnail for that nameplate layer there…

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