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Refining a mask with Multiply

Refining a mask with Multiply - Photoshop Tutorial

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Refining a mask with Multiply

All right, now at this point we have a pretty good mask, but it's not sensational. We do have some brittle details around the edges here. I'm not altogether convinced that she really belongs against this marble background. So what we're going to do is darken up some of the edges and we can't do that because we have this dark version of the model right here in the background, and as a result we can adjust our mask to reveal portions of that darkened image. And as you'll see this adjustment once again relies on a darkened mode. I've saved my progress as Base mask.psd, it's found inside the 04_darken folder. And what we're going to do is blur the mask inward. We're going to make sure it blurs inward only, thanks to the Multiply mode. But before we go changing our mask because this will be a destructive modification at least in so far as the mask is concerned, I suggest we save it out as an alpha channel. So switch over to the Channels panel and grab that layer mask right there and drag…

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