From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Putting a mask into play - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Putting a mask into play
In this exercise we're going to create a pair of glows inside the black regions of the goggles and we are going to do so by loading up that eyes alpha channel as the selection. I'm still working in the image called Masked man.tif. Now there are different ways to work with alpha channels inside Photoshop. But you typically have to somehow put the Alpha channel in play. By which I mean, the mask can't just be sitting around inside of an alpha channel. You either have to convert it to a selection outline or a layer mask or something that can be used inside the Layers panel. In our case we're going to go ahead and load up the eyes as a selection, and I'll do so using my favorite technique, which is to press the Ctrl key or the Command key on a Mac, and click on that eyes channel, and now we've got our selection outline reinstated. Now I'll switch to the Layers panel, we want to really jump these guys to a new layer and you can do that by going up to the layer menu, choosing New and then…
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The origins of the alpha channel3m 40s
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How a mask works7m 10s
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Making an alpha channel4m 2s
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Using the new channel icons6m 27s
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Saving an image with alpha channels4m 23s
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Loading a selection from a channel4m 7s
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Putting a mask into play3m 55s
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Loading a selection from a layer4m 27s
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Loading a selection from another image4m 36s
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The alpha channel is home to the mask1m 40s
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