How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
34. How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC
Lessons
Class Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC
02:36 2Before you Start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial
01:20 3How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop CC
09:56 4Basic Navigation & How to Combine Images in Photoshop
07:37 5Layers - Quiz
How to Fix an Image Using Levels in Photoshop CC
04:03 7How to Enhance Colors in Photoshop Using Vibrance
03:28 8How to Change the Color of Something in Photoshop Using Hue
02:52 9How to Change Just One Color in Adobe Photoshop CC
01:57 10How to Make an Image Black & White in Photoshop CC
04:35 11How to Add a Gradient to an Image & Text in Photoshop
10:57 12Color & Adjustment Layers - Quiz
13Creating a Specific Sized Document Adobe Photoshop CC
04:10 14How to Draw Star Square Circle Shape in Photoshop CC
12:01 15Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes
06:39 16Shapes - Quiz
17How to Create Text in Adobe Photoshop CC
08:09 18How to Warp Text in Adobe Photoshop CC
01:57 19How to Get Text to Follow a Line or Circle in Photoshop
13:04 20Text - Quiz
21How to Add a Line Around the Outside of Type in Photoshop
08:17 22How to a Bevel or Emboss to Text in Photoshop CC
02:19 23How to Add a Drop Shadow to Text in Photoshop CC
03:02 24Presenting your Photoshop Work for your Portfolio
06:35 25Project 1 - Creating your own Postcard
04:29 26How to Crop an Image in Adobe Photoshop CC
03:40 27How to Crop an Image for a Frame in Adobe Photoshop CC
06:11 28How to Straighten the Horizon Line Using Photoshop CC
01:55 29How to Copy from One Image to Another in Photoshop CC
06:20 30How to Crop Images Inside of Text
09:35 31How to Remove the Background in Adobe Photoshop CC
10:11 32Class Project - Quick Select Tool
00:37 33How to put Text Behind a Person in Adobe Photoshop CC
07:01 34How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:47 35Class Project - Cut a Person out & put them into Another Image in Photoshop
08:57 36How to Blend Fade one Image into Another in Photoshop CC
04:36 37How to Weave Text in and out of a Photoshop Image
03:18 38How to Select Hair in Adobe Photoshop CC
16:24 39Class Project - Selecting Hair
01:21 40How to Select Things with Straight Edges in Adobe Photoshop CC
03:41 41How to get Text to Interact with Ink & Plants in Photoshop CC
13:15 42Class Project - Text & Image Interaction
01:41 43Selection & Masking - Quiz
44How to Add Filters & Effects in Adobe Photoshop
04:14 45How to Turn an Image into a Painting in Adobe Photoshop
03:12 46Class Project – Oil Painting
00:31 47How to Create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop
06:42 48Class exercise - Halftone
00:23 49How to fake Realistic Motion Blur in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:28 50The Lens Flare Right of Passage in Adobe Photoshop
03:31 51Filters - Quiz
52What is a Smart Object in Adobe Photoshop CC
09:03 53How to Bend a Logo onto an Image Realistically in Photoshop
07:49 54How to make a Sky Peeling like Fabric Revealing Background in Photoshop
03:13 55Class Project - Peeling Sky
00:49 56How to Shrink Body Parts in Adobe Photoshop CC Using Liquify
05:44 57How to Create Dripping Paint Text Effect in Photoshop CC
09:17 58Class Project - Drippy Paint Text
00:52 59How to Remove People & Text from a Picture in Photoshop
06:56 60Use Google Images to find your Image Before Retouching
02:38 61How to Remove Red Eye from Photographs in Photoshop
00:53 62How to Retouch Skin in Adobe Photoshop CC
05:22 63Class Project - Retouching
00:47 64Enhancing Eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC
06:46 65How to Fix Teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC
04:33 66Retouching
67How to Instantly Remove the White Background of a Logo in Photoshop
04:15 68Using Blending Modes as Color Accents in Photoshop
07:10 69How to put Images Inside a Bottle Using Photoshop
15:14 70Class Project - Boat in a Bottle
02:15 71How to Create the Spotify Duotone Effect in Adobe Photoshop
05:43 72Class Project - Duotones
00:20 73How to Create the 3D Glasses Anaglyph Effect in Adobe Photoshop
06:14 74Class Project - Anaglyph Effect
00:36 75How to Create a Vintage Instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop
08:40 76Class Project - Vintage Matte Photo
00:49 77How to Create the Paper Cut Effect in Adobe Photoshop CC
12:07 78Class Project - Paper Cut Effect
00:31 79How to Use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC
20:14 80What is the Difference Between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC
07:12 81How do you Change the Resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC
10:38 82Color Modes & Resulotion - Quiz
83Basic Introduction to Using a Wacom Tablet with Photoshop
12:22 84How to Create Splatter Paint Effects in Adobe Photoshop CC
08:11 8577. Class Project - Ink Splats
00:54 86How to Create Dripping Paint Ink Effect in Photoshop
06:46 87Class Project - Dripping Paint Brush
00:55 88How to Create Smoke with an Image Inside it using Photoshop CC
05:50 89Class Project - Smoke Effect
01:03 90How to Make a Long Vector Hard Shadow in Photoshop
05:26 91How to Cast a Realistic Shadow on the Ground in Photoshop
07:16 92Bending or Curved Shadow Under an Image in Photoshop
03:33 93How to Export Images from Photoshop for Print Web & Social Media
10:18 94What Next after your Photoshop Essentials Class
01:15 95Final Quiz
Lesson Info
How to Create a Layer Mask in Adobe Photoshop CC
Hi there in this video, we're going to learn what a layer mask is and how to create it. It's super simple basically it's this black and white thing that goes over top of an image and the cool thing about it? It allows you to do cool stuff like this where I can move my image within the mask, I can disable the mask. So it's really like copying and pasting but I have a few extra professional controls at my disposal. Let's learn how to do that now in Photoshop. Okay, so it's time to go back in time. A little bit. We worked on a project. Okay. It is in your exercise files under oh five selections and masking. It was way back here where we took marquee tool. One and two. Okay, so I'm gonna open up both of these and before we used our selection tool, which was really cool. Okay, We used the rectangle marquee tool and hold down shift and I got a nice big circle in the right place and then I copied and pasted. Now from now on you're never allowed to copy and paste. Okay? We have to use somethin...
g called a layer mask and they're pretty easy to implement. So any sort of selection, you can use the quick selection tool, the magic wand tool or in our case the ellipse marquee tool. Okay, Instead of heading copy down here, it's this little icon here. Okay, so click on that. Nothing really much changes kind of removes the background but look at the layer structure over here, can you see the actual image is fine. What's happening is there's a mask over the top and you can see the black parts hide the background and the white hole in the middle shows us the image through. There's a couple of perks for this. So we're going to use our move tool, click hold and drag drag, drag the center of it up to our tab. Wait, wait, wait, come down. Here we go. So why is it cool? Okay, I'm going to transform this, remember command T on a Mac or control D on a Pc. Okay. And I'm just going to scale it down to get it to where I want. So nothing much is different. Okay, from where we did it, we're just copying and pasting. What ends up happening is once you get the right shape, get into the spot, return to get rid of my transform. What's really nice about it is a couple of things you can unlinked, which they see this little chain link here. So it means the image and the mask are actually separate and you can tell that which one you're working on. You see the kind of dotted white line that appears when I click on them. So I want to work on the image. Okay, watch this. I grab my move tool, I can move this around within my mask to get it more aligned. I can work on the mask separately. Okay, so with the mask layer selected, I can move the mask around. Okay, that's not what I want to do and undo. And I'm going to link them back together by clicking that just kind of empty area where the link icon was. So it gets better. So we've done that change. And what we can do is with the mask selected. Okay, you'll notice that the properties panel adjusts and the easiest one to start with is this feather? Watch this. If I crank up the feather really high, can you see over here? It's kind of feathering the edge of my mask. Whereas before when we used the lips marquee tool, really kind of sharp edge. Whereas now I've got a little bit more play here and I'm just going to kind of I don't want it to be super feathery. Okay, but just a little bit more in tune with the rest of the image. So it's the same basic principles as we've learned. Except we click on this button here and it gives us a few extra options. Let's double back to let's look at the quick selection tool. So I'm going to grab quick select one and two did the exact same thing as we did before. Quick selection tool, grab my shoes. I'm gonna make my brush a little bigger. Okay, I'm gonna drag across the mall across the mall, drag across the mall. It's pretty good. So just a little bit of white there, there was a little bit over here too from last time. Cool. Instead of copying and pasting, all we do is click this one, same net result, but I can grab my move tool, click hold and drag them over to this tab. Okay, let them go in here and the same rules apply here. I can maybe further this a little bit cape and as we go through this particular video series where we're at layer mask, we're going to dive into some of the extra special bits where we can tidy up the edges in here using something called selective mask. So that my friends is a layer mask that is considered non destructive editing and it would be something that I considered absolutely essential for a professional person in Photoshop. It means that I can do a really quick mask for say a client just to get the, maybe it's for my creative director. I just want to say, hey, what do you think of this thing real quick? I haven't done a perfect mask, but it's just super quick one. Then you can go back into later on and you can do things like right clicking it and disabling the mask to show the background. Okay? Or you can right click it and enable it. Okay, I can also go back and refine it may be playing with feather and in the future video we'll look at select and mask. All right, so let's go now and look at some slightly more advanced layer masks
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