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How masks work

How masks work - Photoshop Tutorial

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How masks work

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm gonna give you a sense for how masking works inside Photoshop. Now, I'll be working inside this file, called "Stencil demo", but I don't recommend that you open this file, because I won't be providing you with any of the hands-on instructions that you would need to follow along. Rather, think of this as a conceptual demonstration of how masking works. So again, don't follow along. Just sit back and watch, 'cause there's gonna be a lot to see. Now, let's imagine, for a moment, that I wanted to use a real-world traditional-style airbrush to paint some text onto this photograph, then I'd go ahead and lay down a stencil, or if you prefer, a frisket, and then paint onto that stencil, in order to ensure that I paint inside the lines. So having set down my stencil, I'm gonna go ahead and switch to the Brush tool, here, inside the toolbox, and I wanna paint with a kind of bluish-silver. So I'll click on the foreground color swatch at the bottom of the…

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