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Refining masks in Photoshop

Refining masks in Photoshop

From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Refining masks in Photoshop

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- With Photoshop, you can add non-destructive masks to reveal or obscure parts of a layer. This will allow us to let motion come through from beneath. Let's start with the falls here. I'll name this top layer Static. That's just going to help me keep everything organized. I can twirl this up and click the layer mask button to add a layer mask. You'll see that that mask is filled with white by default. This means that this content is opaque. I'll press B for Brush, and load my default colors by pressing D for Default. If needed you can switch to the black by clicking the arrow there to toggle between or press the X key. I'll take the zoom tool and back to my paintbrush, B, I can adjust the size of the brush. Note you can affect the hardness and the overall size. What I'm going to do is paint with black and this reveals pixels from below. If I turn off the water layer, you can see what's happening. So we're revealing the water fall. If I paint too far, I could flip back over to white…

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