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Masking techniques in Photoshop

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Wednesday, 30 November 2011 19:16

Photoshop tutorial masking The mask feature inside Photoshop is used for various things with manipulating of images and layers and mastering this feature is a great advantage for everyone. Basically the mask is a co-layer to the existing layer where the light points shows the visible areas of the image and the dark points the opposite, you can image this like an eraser which you can revert by simply brushing over the erased area with the opposite brush. In this tutorial i will show you various tools how you can apply and create a mask and so cut off also difficult shapes from the original image very easy.

We will go through traditional tools like the brush, selecting tools, and polygonal lasso tool to more complicated methods and techniques like the pen tool and channel selection. During the tutorial i will cut off a tree from his background using the channel technique and new features of Photoshop CS5. After the tree would be cut off i will replace the original technique and tune the image using filters and image processing tools available in Photoshop to create a new and more dramatic image. You can download all project files including the *.psd Photoshop files below.

Include:

· Creating a mask using selection tools

· Creating a mask using pen tool

· Creating a mask using channels

· Cutting off a tree with leafs

· Replacing background

· Manipulating the image using layers and filters

· Finishing the image for more dramatic look

Time:

· 00:25:00

Software used in the tutorial:

· Photoshop (optional CS5)

Tags: photoshop tutorial, tutorial for photoshop, adobe photoshop tutorial, 2d painting software, 2d modeling software, 2d software, digital art tutorial, digital painting tutorial, masking techniques in photoshop tutorial, masking techniques in photoshop

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Comments

0 # islamoNET 2011-12-02 19:24

I thank you very much for all that you give.

But to any level you want to access in this series ?
I hope you continus.

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0 # Administrator 2011-12-02 19:39

Quoting islamoNET:

I thank you very much for all that you give.

But to any level you want to access in this series ?
I hope you continus.

Hi, sure we want to continue with this series ;-)

So far we want to present some basics, tips and tricks and techniques which will help you with Photoshop, than start some interesting stuff like photo-manipulations and so ;-)