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Becoming an expert with masking in Photoshop

Becoming an expert with masking in Photoshop

From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Becoming an expert with masking in Photoshop

- Hi, my name is Chris Orwig and welcome to another episode of Photo Tools Weekly. The topic for this episode comes by way of a suggestion from Carlos in Costa Rica and Carlos wrote wanting to learn how to get even better with masking. Now, masking is one of those core and essential skills inside of Photoshop and a lot of us know how to work with masks just a little bit but here in this episode we're going to step it up and become more of an expert when working with masking in Photoshop. All right, let's begin. - [Voiceover] All right, let's take the first step in becoming an expert with masking in Photoshop. In this movie I want to share with you a few advanced shortcuts and tips. But first, I want to go back to the basics for a moment then we'll dive right in. For starters a mask is kind of like a mask that you wear over your face. In Photoshop it covers up something and in Photoshop whatever is white reveals, whatever is black conceals. It is essential that you know this and it's…

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