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This Photoshop tutorial discusses how to use masking techniques to improve your work, including working with layers and the Brush tool. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Photoshop-CS-Photographers/96307-2.html?utm_medium=viral&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=videoupload-96307-1002
This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter ten of the Photoshop CS6 for Photographers course presented by lynda.com author Chris Orwig. The complete Photoshop CS6 for Photographers course has a total duration of 12 hours and 20 minutes, and discusses enhancing and retouching photos, including how to prepare them for print and online publishing
Photoshop CS6 for Photographers table of contents:
Introduction
1. Strategies for Learning
2. Getting Started with Bridge and Mini Bridge
3. Color Settings and Preferences
4. Foundations of Color Management
5. Getting Started with Photoshop
6. Understanding Digital Images
7. Working in Camera Raw
8. Utilizing Layers
9. Making Selection
10. Using the Masking Panel
11. Adding Custom Borders
12. Improving Your Images with Adjustments
13. Using Levels to Correct and Enhance
14. Making Color and Tone Adjustments with Curves
15. The Art of Blending Modes
16. Correcting Color
17. Enhancing Colors
18. Burning and Dodging
19. Converting to Black and White
20. Working with Filters
21. Removing Noise
22. Basic Image Cleanup
23. Correcting Distortion and Perspective
24. Combining Multiple Images
25. Sharpening Your Images
26. Getting Your Images Online
27. Desktop Printing
28. Working with Video
Conclusion
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49 responses to “Photoshop CS6: Working with masks | lynda.com tutorial”
Thanks a lot for your knowledge!
Ahh thanks for jogging my memory. I knew there was a way to do that trick!
So perfectly well-explained! Thanks.
If I want to blend in a woman’s face into the sunset, I could select it and use a move tool, set opacity lower and erase the edges. Why use a layer mask? I don’t mess up. If I did, I could just re-do the image.
This easy to follow tutorial saved me time and aided me with a simple bit of editing I wanted to do on a photograph. Thank you! p.s I also learned through your video about right clicking whilst using the brush tool will allow me to quickly adjust the brush size or brush tool
Awesome, thanks man.
Thank you! I found this explanation easy to understand and work from.
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Very well explained!
Thank you that you explicated it so well
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Thanks its very simple and helpful.
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thank you sir, it really helped a lot
Thank you so much. I read so much and watched videos on masking and got more confused. I watch your video once and it all makes sense =)
Your voice sounds like Daniel Negreanu 🙂
Look no offence but you went straight to the tutorial by showing people you had two layers of B&W and the background image.
Why didn't you explain how to get to that point before explaining how the technique works?
your video was actually quite helpful!! thank you 🙂
Thank you !! 🙂
Thanks for the tutorial I keep getting confused your example is helpful for my learning to use Photoshop.
Working with mask simplified brilliantly !
Awesome tutorial thank you! Have one question tho. Sometimes when I am trying to paint on my mask layer it will just paint in white or black instead of revealing or concealing a layer. Any advice or solutions?? Thank you very much!
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OH my gosh. SO HELPFUL. THANK YOU !!! 😀 Seriously, I can't say how much this helped me. I've been clicking around on various tutorials for about 40 minutes. Yours has helped more than anything by far.
How do you make the first layer a background?
Couldn't you essentially just use the eraser on the top layer to reveal the bottom layer? This is where I get lost. Why bother with masks if all you're doing is erasing things to reveal what's below? Seems like unnecessary steps. What is it that I'm not understanding here?
Thanks for this. Really valuable resource for me
simple and effective thank you
How do I mask the detail part of the picture without going over the line. Ex. Pumpkin tail, hkw do I mask that with orange without ruining the background?
So where did you get the B&W. Is it a new image or did you make a copy and turn it B&W? How are they linked?
Very well explained!! I got it Now!!
THANK YOU!
what if i demand a pumpkin with distinct color?
Finally! I understand a mask…thanks to a pumpkin head!
Very well explained!
You are a life saver for us Photo Shop beginners, you didn't go into your lifes' story or ramble on & on into infinity. YOU GOT RIGHT TO THE POINT. Thank you so much!!!
you honestly just save my life lol.. needed this for homework
Thanks!
because with masking you can go back after you saving document and improve some things if you want. with erasing that is not posible
Thank you so much! I've gone though 4 other tutorials trying to learn this T^T
Why is masking better than just erasing or lasso + delete?
WONDERFUL!
THANKS so Much!
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Hey, Love the tutorial, but when i switch back to paint out a mistake it's not completely removing the colour, the white is leaking some saturation from the layer below, it's on 100% and i have all the settings at 100% and on normal, any help?
It's a mask tutorial though, and masking is often far superior to simply erasing.
So does this mask allow me to remove that part of the image? Because I do lego stopmotions and masking is what I'm trying to use to make them fly and stuff.
thanks so much by far the best masks video i've seen