Photoshop Tutorials

LAYER MASK Layer masks more sophisticated metod of masking than clipping masks of locks because you have much more control over the transparency but they’re not necessarily always the best option. Remember to use them in conjunction with clipping masks. -         Create a new image and fill it with random colour. -         Make a new layer on top and fill it with different colours. -         Click the ‘ add layer mask ’ at the layers palette. Now the layer has a white box beside it and your colours have gone to freyscale.        -         Choose pure black as your colour and paint some stroles on the image. The black areas turn transpatrent. With vector masks, Black is transparent, White is Opaque and the grey tones inbetween are different levels of opacity. Use a low opacity brush to add some gre...

CLIPPING MASK Locking transparency is the most basic way of working with a fixed alpha. Using CLIPPING MASKS is a way of using an older layers transparency without altering the new layer. -         Using the file from the previous example, turn off all the locks. -         Create a new layer and fill it with lots of colours. -         Right-click on the layer in the layers palette and choose ‘ create clipping mask ’ or hold Alt and click on the line dividing the two layers or press Ctrl+Alt+G -         Create a new layer, repeat step 2 and 3. The new layer conforms to the opacity of the first layer and not the second layer. This means you can make a layer and have many other layers (including adjustment layers) inherit its opacity. Now if you start blurring, distorting or erasing parts of the original layer, all the ...