From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Unclipping and masking a shadow - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Unclipping and masking a shadow
In this exercise, we're going to unclip that shadow layer and mask it so that it casts a uniform shadow across all portions of the nameplate. I'll save my progress as Bad shadow bad glow.psd. Now, the problem is that Photoshop is calculating the clipping of the shadow layer into that new plate layer and then tracing the inner shadow around both elements. Now sometimes there is a way around that. What you can do and this is a little bit confusing and a little bit obscure, but I'm going to show it to you anyway because you may find it of use in the future and I will reemphasize these options in later chapters as well. But one of the things you might be able to do, doesn't turn out to work in our case, but you might be able to double- click on the thumbnail for that clipping layer that is the layer that's called new plate and that will bring up the layer Style dialog box. And then you've got these check boxes right here; Blend Interior Effects as Group and Blend Clipped layers as Group…
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Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay6m 13s
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Changing a mask's overlay color5m 34s
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Painting inside a mask6m 3s
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Cleaning up and confirming5m 18s
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Combining masks5m 10s
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Painting behind and inside a layer5m 27s
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Blending image elements6m 1s
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What to do when layers go wrong6m 3s
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Hiding layer effects with a mask4m 22s
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Introducing clipping masks5m 29s
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Unclipping and masking a shadow3m 50s
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The mask meets the composition1m 8s
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