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Releasing and masking layer effects - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Releasing and masking layer effects
In this exercise I'll show you how to convert layer effects into layers so that we can mask them. I've saved my progress to Shark with shadow.psd it's found inside the 06_color_range folder and the idea is I would like to mask this inner shadow effect that's creating these highlights here so that the highlights aren't quite this bright. Now you might figure the solution is to just dial down the opacity of that inner shadow effect. However, if we do that then we'll end up losing the highlights along the tail and along the top portion of the shark that are currently in great shape. So I'd rather get some selective control. The thing is you can't actually apply a mask to a layer effect. So instead what you need to do is convert the effects into layers and here's how that works. I'm going to click on the shark layer to make it active. Now I don't want to lose my layer effects not permanently. So I'm going to go ahead and copy them onto the shadow layer, just in case I need to come back to…
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Introducing the Color Range command5m 59s
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Working in the Color Range dialog box7m 7s
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Primary colors and luminance ranges4m 12s
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A terrific use for Color Range4m 57s
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Introducing the Quick Mask mode7m 43s
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Moving a selection into a new background5m 43s
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Smoothing the mask, recreating the corners8m 43s
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Integrating foreground and background4m 44s
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Creating a cast shadow from a layer2m 51s
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Releasing and masking layer effects3m 11s
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Creating a synthetic rainbow effect4m 30s
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Masking and compositing your rainbow4m 46s
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The best selection tools are commands1m 5s
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