From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Clipping and compositing tricks - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Clipping and compositing tricks
In this exercise, we are going to finish off the composition, using a clipping mask as well as a handful of other compositing tricks. I have saved my progress as more flexible glassware.psd, found inside the 09_layermask folder. So I was reviewing the composition figure and you know what, I want these highlights to be brighter, but I want them to be in exactly the same shape they appear here inside the layer Mask. So to do that you need to load up the layer mask as a selection, by Ctrl+Clicking on it or Command+ Clicking on that layer mask thumbnail, the one associate with the Knockout layer, they're inside Layers panel. And that goes ahead and selects the white area and deselect the black area of the mask. So we need to reverse the selection, by going up to the Select menu and choosing the Inverse command are pressing Ctrl+ Shift+I or Command+Shift+I on the Mac. Now drop down to the soft light layer right there and press Ctrl+Shift+N or Command+Shift+N in order to bring up the New…
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White reveals, black conceals6m 45s
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Layer masking tips and tricks5m 8s
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Generating a layer mask with Color Range5m 38s
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The Masks panel's bad options5m 18s
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The Masks panel's good options3m 50s
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Creating and feathering a vector mask3m 42s
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Combining pixel and vector masks3m 50s
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Working with path outlines7m 10s
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Combining paths into a single vector mask7m 52s
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Sharpening detail, reducing color noise4m 27s
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Recreating missing details8m 49s
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Masking glass5m 50s
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Refining a jagged Magic Wand mask5m 53s
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Masking multiple layers at one time5m 15s
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Establishing a knockout layer6m 6s
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Clipping and compositing tricks7m 37s
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The synthesis of masking and compositing1m 36s
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